20220913 Gopher Tortoise SSA Report-508 compliant.pdf

a gopher tortoise walking along the forest floor
20220913 Gopher Tortoise SSA Report_508 compliant.pdf16.87 MB

Species Status Assessment Report for the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), Version 0.4, August 2021; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, Atlanta, GA

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Type of document
Report
Facility
Southeast Region Headquarters
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Administrative Office
Atlanta,GA
Program
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Program
Falls Church,VA
Species
A baby tortoise perches in grass and looks at the camera.

The gopher tortoise is a large, (shell 15 to 37 centimeters or 5.9 to 14.6 inches long) dark-brown to grayish-black terrestrial turtle with elephantine hind feet, shovel-like forefeet, and a gular projection beneath the head on the yellowish, hingeless plastron or undershell (Ernst and Barbour...

FWS Focus
Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank
Species
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Southeast