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Taxon: Species Xerobates agassizii Cooper, 1861 (reptile)
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Authorship

Original name:  Cooper, 1861: 120.

Types

Type, by original designation, of: Scaptochelys (Genus) Bramble, 1982 Ref: D.M. Bramble, 1982: 853. [new]

Combinations

Subsequent combination: Gopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861) Ref: Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.], 2014: 399.
Subsequent combination: Scaptochelys agassizii (Cooper, 1861) Ref: D.M. Bramble, 1982: 853, 854. [implicit]
Current combination: Gopherus agassizii (Cooper, 1861) Ref: Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.], 2014: 399.
Current combination: Scaptochelys agassizii (Cooper, 1861) Ref: D.M. Bramble, 1982: 853, 854. [implicit]

Synonyms

Junior subjective synonym: Xerobates lepidocephalus Ottley & Velázquez Solis, 1989 Ref: R. Franz, 2014: 19 (Crumly & Grismer, 1994).
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