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Title: A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico

Author: John M. Legler

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 11, No. 5, pp. 335-343, pls. 7 and 8
April 24, 1959

A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus,
From North-central Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 11, No. 5, pp. 335-343
Published April 24, 1959

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1959

A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus,
From North-central Mexico

BY

JOHN M. LEGLER

In the course of taxonomic studies of the genus _Gopherus_ it was
found that specimens from north-central Mexico belong to an hitherto
unrecognized species, which is named and described below.

Gopherus flavomarginatus new species

_Holotype._--U.S. National Museum 61253, adult; stuffed specimen
with disassociated skull; 30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango,
Mexico; obtained by Dr. Elswood Chaffee, 1918.

_Paratypes._--USNM 61254, adult, stuffed specimen with skull in
place, other data the same as those for holotype; USNM 60976,
adult, stuffed specimen with disassociated skull, Lerdo, Durango,
Dr. Elswood Chaffee, May 1918; University of Illinois 42953-4,
adults, two carapaces, Carrillo, Chihuahua, Pete S. Chrapliwy and
Kenneth L. Williams, 1 August 1958; University of Kansas 39415,
adult, carapace only, 8 mi. E and 2 mi. S Americanos, Coahuila,
Robert W. Dickerman, 19 May 1954.

_Diagnosis._--A large tortoise of the genus _Gopherus_, having a
flat-topped, posteriorly-flared shell,