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Original
Description |
Gray 1831b : 69 |
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Type
Locality |
Not stated; "West Africa" according to label on BMNH 1947.3.5.73 |
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Holotype |
BMNH 1979.919; not BMNH 1947.3.5.73 as originally indicated in the BMNH catalog, according to Broadley 1981a:196. |
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Original name |
Kinixys belliana |
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Common
name |
Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise |
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Distribution |
Ethiopia to Senegal to Botswana and Republic of South Africa; Madagascar (where it may be introduced) |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Broadley (1981a), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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