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