Chelonoidis

Morphological and phylogeographic analysis of Brazilian tortoises (Testudinidae)

T. L. Silva, Venancio, L. P. R., and Bonini-Domingos, C. R., Morphological and phylogeographic analysis of Brazilian tortoises (Testudinidae), vol. 14. pp. 18604-18606, 2015.

The discriminative potentials of biogeography, vocalization, morphology, cytogenetics, hemoglobin, and molecular profiling of cytochrome b as taxonomic techniques for differentiating Brazilian tortoises were evaluated in this study. In Brazil, two species of tortoises are described, Chelonoidis carbonarius and Chelonoidis denticulatus. However, in the present study, some animals that were initially recognized based on morphological characters and coloring did not correspond to the typical pattern of C.

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