gopher tortoises

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• gopher — I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1791 1. a burrowing land tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) of the southern United States; broadly any of several related land tortoises called also gopher tortoise 2. a. any of a family (Geomyidae) of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Mississippi Gopher Frog — Conservation status Critically Endangered …   Wikipedia

• Gopherus polyphemus — Taxobox name = Gopher Tortoise status = VU status system = iucn2.3 image size = 240px image caption = Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida ordo = Testudines subordo = Cryptodira… …   Wikipedia

• Gopherus — Taxobox name = Gopherus image width = 250px image caption = Florida Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Sauropsida ordo = Testudines subordo = Cryptodira superfamilia = Testudinoidea familia =… …   Wikipedia

• U.S. state reptiles — Turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodilians are all represented as U.S. state reptiles. Twenty six U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other state symbols, states compare admirabl …   Wikipedia

• Eastern indigo snake — Conservation status Least Concern ( …   Wikipedia

• List of Texas reptiles — This is a list of Texas reptiles, including all snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the state of Texas.The state of Texas has a large variety of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and …   Wikipedia

• Crotalus adamanteus — Conservation status Least Concern …   Wikipedia

• Great American Interchange — The Great American Interchange was an important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea… …   Wikipedia

• genus Gopherus — noun gopher tortoises • Syn: ↑Gopherus • Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Testudinidae, ↑family Testudinidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Gopherus — noun gopher tortoises • Syn: ↑genus Gopherus • Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Testudinidae, ↑family Testudinidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary