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Original
Description |
Bonnaterre 1789 : 28 |
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Type
Locality |
"Indes" (in error); designated as "Kap der Guten Hoffnung" [= Cape of Good Hope, Republic of South Africa] by Mertens (1937:139); designated as "Taolañaro (Fort-Dauphin), République Malagasy (Madagascar)" by Bour (1982b:535). |
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Holotype |
MNHN 7970 |
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Original name |
Testudo subrufa |
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Common
name |
Helmeted Turtle |
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Distribution |
Africa from Senegal and Ethiopia to Republic of South Africa, Madagascar, and southern Saudi Arabia and Yemen |
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Comments |
Originally described by Lacepède (1788:173), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN Opinion 1463 (1987). Includes P. galeata Schoepff (1792:12) according to all recent authors. Reviewed by Loveridge (1941), and Boycott and Bourquin (1988). |
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