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Original
Description |
Lortet 1883 : 188 |
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Type
Locality |
"dans les sables de la basse Égypte, surtout dans les environs d'Alexandrie" [Egypt] |
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Syntypes |
(number uncertain) includes at least MNHN 9839; USNM 10979; SMF 7810; SMF 7810 designated lectotype by Mertens 1967:52. |
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Original name |
Testudo kleinmanni |
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Common
name |
Egyptian Tortoise |
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Distribution |
North Africa from Libya to southern Israel |
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Comments |
Subgenus Pseudotestudo, although Bour (1988c:18) presents evidence that this subgenus is not diagnosable. Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Groombridge (1982), Buskirk (1985), and Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). |
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