EMYSystem Species Page: Kinixys homeana
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OrderOrder Testudines (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
FamilyFamily Testudinidae (Tortoises)
SubfamilySubfamily Testudininae ()
GenusGenus Kinixys (Hinge-back Tortoises)
SpeciesSpecies Kinixys homeana (Home's Hinge-back Tortoise)
range of species Kinixys homeana
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Original Description Bell 1827 : 400
Type Locality "Africā occidentali"
Syntypes at least OUM 8522
Original name Kinixys homeana
Common name Home's Hinge-back Tortoise
Distribution Liberia to Cameroon and eastern Zaire
Comments Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957) and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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