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Original
Description |
Gmelin 1789 : 1043 |
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Type
Locality |
Not stated; designated as "vicinity of Springbok, Cape Province, South Africa" by Bour (1988a:3) |
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Holotype |
Not designated; the Plate labelled "Testud. Sign. var." in Walbaum 1782 was designated lectotype by Bour 1988a:1 and reproduced in that work. |
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Original name |
Testudo signata |
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Common
name |
Speckled Cape Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Western Cape Province, Republic of South Africa |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott (1986), Bour (1988a), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Boycott (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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