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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 321 |
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Type
Locality |
"Patria ignota" [= country unknown] |
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Holotype |
Not designated, although in MNHN according to original description; a stuffed specimen received from the MNHN (SMF 7857) is not the specimen measured in Schweigger 1812, but may be a syntype according to Crumly pers. comm.; see also King and Burke 1989:71; MNHN 4087 is the syntype measured by Schweigger 1812:360, according to R. Bour pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Testudo angulata |
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Common
name |
South African Bowsprit Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Namibia and Republic of South Africa |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Branch (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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