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Original
Description |
Schoepff 1794 : 111 |
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Type
Locality |
"India orientali" |
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Holotype |
Not located, but Schoepff 1794 stated that the specimen illustrated was from the "Museis Hagae Comitis et Harlemi" [possibly in the TSMHN in Haarlem, Netherlands]. |
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Original name |
Testudo elegans |
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Common
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Indian Star Tortoise |
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Distribution |
India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka |
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Comments |
Subgenus Geochelone according to Bour (1984c). Wallin (1977) showed that a Linnaean type of Testudo geometrica is this species rather than Psammobates geometricus (see Comment under that species). Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Testudo elegans), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989), and Das (1991). |
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