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Original
Description |
Bell 1828a : 420 |
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Type
Locality |
"Promont. Bonae Spei" [= Cape of Good Hope, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa] |
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Holotype |
Not located, although possibly in the OUM. |
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Original name |
Testudo pardalis |
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Common
name |
Leopard Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Sudan to Angola and Republic of South Africa |
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Comments |
Subgenus Stigmochelys according to Bour (1984c). Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Boycott and Bourquin (1985), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989); Greig and Burdett (1976) suggested that the subspecies may not be valid. |
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