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Geochelone chilensis (Chaco tortoise)
Taxonomy
Testudo chilensis was named by Gray (1870). It is extant.
It was recombined as Geochelone (Chelonoides) chilensis by Auffenberg (1971); it was recombined as Geochelone chilensis by Crumly (1982); it was recombined as Chelonoidis chilensis by Gray (1870), Auffenberg (1974), de Broin and de la Fuente (1993), van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was recombined as Geochelone (Chelonoides) chilensis by Auffenberg (1971); it was recombined as Geochelone chilensis by Crumly (1982); it was recombined as Chelonoidis chilensis by Gray (1870), Auffenberg (1974), de Broin and de la Fuente (1993), van Dijk et al. (2014).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1870 | Chelonoidis chilensis Gray |
| 1870 | Testudo chilensis Gray |
| 1971 | Geochelone (Chelonoides) chilensis Auffenberg p. 110 |
| 1974 | Chelonoidis chilensis Auffenberg |
| 1982 | Geochelone chilensis Crumly p. 215 |
| 1993 | Chelonoidis chilensis de Broin and de la Fuente p. 10 |
| 2014 | Chelonoidis chilensis van Dijk et al. |
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Geochelone chilensis Gray 1870 [Chaco tortoise]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. E. Gray 1870 | Shell depressed, dirty yellow; middle of the back flattened; areola central: n : marginal plates shelving, with a very short keel; front and hinder marginal plates reflexed, making a serrated edge. One pair of supranasals, a triangular frontal plate between the eyes; fore legs with a large spur at the elbow-joint, and numerous conical spines on |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available