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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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TuataraEducational resources on TuataraTuatara or Sphenodon punctatus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Tuatara Sphenodon punctatus (Tuatara) Description from the Animal Diversity Web, covering geographic range, physical characteristics, natural history, and endangered species status. animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sphenodon_punctatus.html Introduction to the Sphenodontidae Provides information on the pleurosaurs and the Tuatara, the only species of sphenodontid alive today and little changed in appearance from the sphenodontids living 150 million www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/lepidos/sphenodontidae.html Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Title Page Checklist of crocodilians, tuatara, and turtles of the world: A www version of the long out-of-print edition originally published by the Association of Systematics Collections in www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist Earlham -- Biological Diversity -- Tuataras rock!! This will ensure that tuatara numbers continue to grow, hopefully reaching pre-feral cat numbers. With such efficient predators as cats and rats, the tuatara www.earlham.edu/~quinnme/tuataras_rock.htm ADW: Sphenodon punctatus: Classification Sphenodon punctatus (tuatara) ... taxon animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Sphenodon_punctatus.html Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) Tuatara. Sphenodon punctatus. Tuataras are found on approximately 30 small, relatively inaccessible islands off the coast of New Zealand. The species was once widely distributed www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/zoo/tuatarap.htm Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Introduction Introduction Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World, an annotated checklist of the 271 nominal species of crocs, tuatara, and turtles, is the result of an www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/intro.htm Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--15 Pseudemydura Siebenrock 1901, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Naturwiss. Kl. 38(22):248. TYPE SPECIES: Pseudemydura umbrina Siebenrock 1901, by monotypy. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst15.htm University of Minnesota Alumni Association : Creature of Change Can the ancient tuatara adapt to global warming? University graduate Jeanine Refsnider plans to find out.Photograph by Simon Wilson www.alumni.umn.edu/6Jul20062.html Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--4 FAMILY: Emydidae Lydekker 1889, In: Nicholson and Lydekker, Manual Palaeont. 2:1117. DISTRIBUTION: Eurasia, North Africa, Americas. COMMENT: Nomenclatural history and content www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst4.htm
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