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Gopherus berlandieri (AGASSIZ, 1857)

IUCN Red List - Gopherus berlandieri - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaTestudinidae, Testudines (turtles) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesTexas (Gopher )Tortoise 
SynonymXerobates berlandieri AGASSIZ 1857: 447
Testudo berlandieri — BOULENGER 1889
Gopherus berlandieri — STEJNEGER 1893
Gopherus polyphemus berlandieri — MERTENS & WERMUTH 1955
Xerobates berlandieri OTTLEY & VELÁZQUES SOLIS 1989
Gopherus berlandieri — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 74
Gopherus berlandieri — LINER 1994
Gopherus berlandieri — CROTHER 2000 
DistributionUSA (S Texas south of Del Rio and San Antonio),
Mexico (E Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas)

Type locality: Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
Types 
CommentEtymology: Named after Jean Louis Berlandier (ca. 1805-1851), Belgian biologist, who left Europe for Mexico in 1826 and settled there.

Reproduction: Gopherus agassizii can hybridize with Gopherus berlandieri (Edwards et al. 2010). 
References
  • Agassiz, Louis 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. vol. 1. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, lii + 452 pp.
  • Auffenberg W; Franz R 1978. Gopherus berlandieri (Agassiz). Texas tortoise. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles No. 213: 1-2 - get paper here
  • Auffenberg, W., & Franz, R. 1978. Gopherus Rafinesque: gopher tortoises Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (211): 1-2 [species accounts in nos. 212-215] - get paper here
  • Auffenberg, W.;Weaver, W. G. 1969. Gopherus berlandieri in southeastern Texas. Bull. Florida State Mus. 13: 141-203 - get paper here
  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
  • Boundy, Jeff; Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Brian I. Crother, Kevin de Queiroz, Darrel R. 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. SSAR, 101 pp.
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
  • Dixon, James R. 2000. Amphibians and reptiles of Texas, second edition. Texas A&M University Press, 421 pp.
  • Edwards, T.; Jarchow, C.J.; Jones, C.A. & Bonine, K.E. 2010. Tracing Genetic Lineages of Captive Desert Tortoises in Arizona. Journal of Wildlife Management 74(4):801–807;]
  • Ernst, Carl H.; Lovich, Jeffrey E. 2009. Turtles of the United States and Canada, 2nd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 827 pp.
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Fujii, A. & Forstner, R.J. 2010. Genetic Variation and Population Structure of the Texas Tortoise, Gopherus berlandieri (Testudinidae), with Implications for Conservation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9(1): 61–69
  • Hamilton, Rodgers D. 1944. Notes on mating and migration in Berlandier's turtle. Copeia 1944 (1): 62 - get paper here
  • Lamb, Trip;Avise, John C.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield 1989. Phylogeographic patterns in mitochondrial DNA of the desert tortoise (Xerobates agassizi), and evolutionary relationships among the North American gopher tortoises Evolution 43 (1): 76-87 - get paper here
  • Lamb, Trip;Lydeard, Charles 1994. A molecular phylogeny of the gopher tortoises, with comments on familial relationships within the Testudinoidea Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 3 (4): 283-291 - get paper here
  • McCord, W.P. & Joseph-Ouni, M. 2004. Chelonian Illustrations #14: North and South American Tortoises. Reptilia (GB) (34): 47-50 - get paper here
  • Mittleman, M. B. 1947. Notes on Gopherus berlandieri (Agassiz). Copeia 1947 (3): 211 - get paper here
  • Nichols, Richard A. 1989. Mitochondrial DNA clues to gopher tortoise dispersal Trends in Ecology & Evolution 4: 192
  • Ottley, John R.; Solis, Victor M. Velazques 1989. An Extant, Indigenous Tortoise Population in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with the Description of a New Xerobates (Chelonii: Testudinidae). The Great Basin Naturalist 49 (4): 496 - get paper here
  • Pàmies, E. & A. Garza 2011. Gopherus berlandieri – Terrarienhaltung und Nachzucht der Texas-Gopherschildkröte Reptilia (Münster) 16 (91): 24-28 - get paper here
  • Rose, Francis L.; Frank W. Judd, and Michael F. Small 2011. Survivorship in Two Coastal Populations of Gopherus berlandieri Journal of Herpetology 45 (1): 75-78. - get paper here
  • Stanford, Craig B. 2010. THE LAST TORTOISE, A TAIL OF EXTINCTION IN OUR LIFETIMES. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hardcover, 240 pp.
  • Strecker, John K. 1929. Random notes on the Zoology of Texas Contributions from Baylor University Museum (18): 1-6
  • Tanzer, Ernest C.;Morrison, Eston O.;Hoffpauir, Charles 1966. New locality records for amphibians and reptiles in Texas Southwestern Naturalist 11 (1): 131-132 - get paper here
  • Valverde, J. 2011. Die Schildkröten Mexikos. Reptilia (Münster) 16 (91): 16-23 - get paper here
  • Winchell, S. 2006. Tortoises of North America - an overview of the genus Gopherus. Reptilia (GB) (49): 9-15 - get paper here
  • Winchell, S. & Love, B. 2006. Die Landschildkröten Nordamerikas. Ein Überblick über die Gattung Gopherus. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (62): 20-27 - get paper here
  • Woodbury, Angus M. 1952. Hybrids of Gopherus berlandieri and G. agassizii Herpetologica 8: 33-36 - get paper here
 
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