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Original
Description |
Shaw 1802 : 22 |
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Type
Locality |
"Madagascar"; restricted by Bour (1978:152) to "Soalara (Baie de Saint-Augustin) sud-ouest de Madagascar" |
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Holotype |
BMNH 1947.3.5.15 |
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Original name |
Testudo radiata |
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Common
name |
Radiated Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Southern Madagascar; apparently introduced on Mauritius and Reunion Islands |
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Comments |
Subgenus Astrochelys (not Asterochelys) according to Bour (1984c). Reviewed by Juvik (1975), Groombridge (1982), Juvik et al. (1981), and Durrell et al. (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). Includes Testudo hypselonota Bourret (1941:9) according to Auffenberg (1963:462-65). |
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