The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz's land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation

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	The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz's land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation
	Murphy RW[*]1,2; Berry KH 3; Edwards T 4; Leviton AE 5; Lathrop A 1; Riedle JD 6
刊名	ZOOKEYS
	2011
期号	113 页码:39-71
关键词	Lectotype Xerobates Gopherus lepidocephalus desert tortoise recovery units California Arizona Mexico
通讯作者	bob.murphy@utoronto.ca
合作状况	其它
英文摘要	We investigate a cornucopia of problems associated with the identity of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Cooper). The date of publication is found to be 1861, rather than 1863. Only one of the three original cotypes exists, and it is designated as the lectotype of the species. Another cotype is found to have been destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The third is lost. The lectotype is genetically confirmed to be from California, and not Arizona, USA as sometimes reported. Maternally, the holotype of G. lepidocephalus (Ottley & Velazques Solis. 1989) from the Cape Region of Baja California Sur, Mexico is also from the Mojavian population of the desert tortoise, and not from Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico as previously proposed. A suite of characters serve to diagnose tortoises west and north of the Colorado River, the Mojavian population, from those east and south of the river in Arizona, USA, and Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, the Sonoran population. Species recognition is warranted and because G. lepidocephalus is from the Mojavian population, no names are available for the Sonoran species. Thus, a new species, Gopherus morafkai sp. n., is named and this action reduces the distribution of G. agassizii to only 30% of its former range. This reduction has important implications for the conservation and protection of G. agassizii, which may deserve a higher level of protection.
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
公开日期	2011-09-06
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.149.42:8088/handle/353002/6757]
专题	昆明动物研究所_分子进化基因组学昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2C6 2.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223 3.U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, 21803 Cactus Avenue, Suite F, Riverside, CA 92518 USA 4.Arizona Research Laboratories, Univer- sity of Arizona Genetics Core, 1657 E. Helen Street, 6 Room 111, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA 5.Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA 6.Department of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Lincoln University, 904 Chestnut St., Jefferson City, MO 65101 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Murphy RW[*],Berry KH,Edwards T,et al. The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz's land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation[J]. ZOOKEYS,2011(113):39-71.
APA	Murphy RW[*],Berry KH,Edwards T,Leviton AE,Lathrop A,&Riedle JD.(2011).The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz's land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation.ZOOKEYS(113),39-71.
MLA	Murphy RW[*],et al."The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz's land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation".ZOOKEYS .113(2011):39-71.