i need it for school work for honors bio 2 thank you for everyone that responds to this
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number of species of tortoise
Justinb.
Aug 19, 2005 03:48 PM
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joeysgreen
Aug 20, 2005 05:49 AM
Tell your teacher that this is kinda a retarded question and see what he/she says. With all the constant redefining of taxonomy, the number surely changes with each new paper on the subject. Your answer will depend on which scientist has the most valid reasoning and the most followers. A university library would be a good place to search for taxonomy books.
rinoa05_1987
Aug 20, 2005 02:10 PM
is it a high school course in which the answer would be in the book? Just wondering as most of my envirmonmental studies questions were straight from the book. otherwise sorry i have no idea, i just thought maybe you could go to the index and check for tortoises, good luck though.
DaviDC.
Aug 20, 2005 06:05 PM
North America 4: bolson, desert, gopher, & texas.
South America 4: chaco, redfoot(2), yellowfoot, galapogos(11).
Europe 4: hermanns(2), marginated, & greek(4).
Asia 14: russian(4), mountain(2), star(2), elongated, greek(4) & aldabra.
Africa 14: radiated, spider, algulated, flat tail, sulcata, leopard, pancake, egyptian, padloper, hingeback(4), & greek.
Australia none.
I'd say there are about 36 defined species world wide.
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