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Original
Description |
Miller 1779 : Fig. 26 |
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Type
Locality |
"India orientali" (in error); erroneously listed as "Westindien" by Wermuth and Mertens (1961:224; 1977:90) |
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Holotype |
Not located; although ZSM 2753/0 has the notation 'lectotype' in the museum's species catalog; however, this number is three juveniles of Geochelone denticulata according to Crumly pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Testudo sulcata |
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Common
name |
African Spurred Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Central Africa from Mauritania and Senegal to Ethiopia |
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Comments |
Subgenus Centrochelys according to Bour (1984c). Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). Hirth and Latif (1981) reported on morphometrics of a Sudan population. |
