Hesperotestudo (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Bermuda, with comments on the phylogenetic position of the genus

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-76

  Meylan, Peter A ^a,b   Sterrer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Natural History Museum and Zoo   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Bermuda; Dispersal; Geochelone; Gopherus; Hesperotestudo; New taxon; Phylogeny; Pleistocene; Testudines; Testudinidae

Indexed keywords

GEOCHELONE; GOPHERUS; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 0034348601     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00649.x     Document Type: Review

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