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Original
Description |
Linnaeus 1766 : 352 |
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Type
Locality |
"Virginia" [USA]; in error |
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Holotype |
NRM De Geer collection 21, according to Andersson 1900:25. |
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Original name |
Testudo denticulata |
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Common
name |
South American Yellow-footed Tortoise |
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Distribution |
South America, east of the Andes, from Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and Brazil; Trinidad |
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Comments |
Subgenus Chelonoidis according to Bour (1984c). See Comment under Geochelone carbonaria and Geochelone elephantina. Reviewed by Castaņo and Lugo (1981), Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), and Walker (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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