Gopherus morafkai Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle, 2011 is a animal in the Testudinidae family, order null, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Gopherus morafkai Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle, 2011
Gopherus morafkai, the Sonoran or Morafka's desert tortoise, is a terrestrial tortoise native to the Sonoran Desert.
Identify with AI — OfflineThe Sonoran Desert tortoise (scientific name Gopherus morafkai, also commonly called Morafka's desert tortoise) is a species of terrestrial chelonian reptile. It belongs to the tortoise family Testudinidae, and is native to the Sonoran Desert.
The scientific name of this species was first published in 2011 by Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop and Riedle.
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Astrochelys radiata (Shaw, 1802)
Centrochelys sulcata (Miller, 1779)
Chelonoidis carbonarius (Spix, 1824)
Kinixys spekii Gray, 1863
Geochelone elegans (Schoepff, 1795)
Homopus femoralis Boulenger, 1888
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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