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Bolson Tortoise

Educational resources on Bolson Tortoise

Bolson Tortoise [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Bolson Tortoise

Academic web links for the Bolson Tortoise.


Gopherus flavomarginatus
Order: Testudines ; Family: Testudinidae (Tortoises) Species: Gopherus flavomarginatus (GO-fer-us fla-voh-mar-gin-A-tus) Common English Name: Bolson Tortoise
museum.utep.edu/chih/theland/animals/reptiles/gophflav.htm

Desert Diary/Bolson Tortoise
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museum.utep.edu/archive/reptiles/DDtortoise2.htm

Bolson Tortoise Repatriation - Human Origins Genotyping Laboratory
The first effort in "Rewilding America"... Restoration of Bolson Tortoises in the Southwestern United States: A Plan for Conservation and Education
hogl.arl.arizona.edu/conservation-genetics/bolson-tortoise-repatriation.html

The Bolson Tortoise ( Gopherus flavomarginatus ): King of the ( Re ...
SONORAN HERPETOLOGIST 20 (5) 2007 50 The Bolson Tortoise ( Gopherus flavomarginatus ): King of the ( Re- ) Wild Frontier Erin Zylstra Graduate Student, School of Natural Resources
www.cfa.arizona.edu/herp/Zylstra%202007_20(5)50.pdf

EMYSystem Species Page: Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson Tortoise)
Original Description: Legler 1959: 337: Type Locality "30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango, Mexico" Holotype : USNM 61253: Original name
emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Gopherusflavomarginatus/Gopherusflavomarginatus.html

Wade C. Sherbrooke Horned Lizards ( Phrynosoma ): Life as Predator and ...
Bolson Tortoise populations are associated with high densities of their major foods such as creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and tobosa grass (Hilaria mutica).
www.cfa.arizona.edu/herp/20%20(5)_49-60.pdf

ADW: Gopherus flavomarginatus: Classification
Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson tortoise) ...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Gopherus_flavomarginatus.html

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Gopherus flavomarginatus (Bolson ...
Original Description Legler 1959: 337 Holotype USNM 61253 Type Locality "30 to 40 miles from Lerdo, Durango, Mexico" Original name Gopherus flavomarginatus
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Gopherusflavomarginatus/Gopherusflavomargi...

mercury.bio.uaf.edu
REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 724. Adest, G.A., G. Aguirre L., D.J. Morafka, and J.V. Jarchow. 1989. Bolson tortoise (Gopherus flavomarginatus) conservation: II.
mercury.bio.uaf.edu/~bgriffit.faculty/reptiles+.html

CU researchers propose rewilding
A pilot study will test the rewilding notion by releasing the endangered Bolson tortoise on a private ranch in New Mexico. The tortoise, which can weigh up to 100 pounds and once
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/rewilding.kr.html







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