EMYSystem Species Page: Testudo marginata
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OrderOrder Testudines (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
FamilyFamily Testudinidae (Tortoises)
SubfamilySubfamily Testudininae ()
GenusGenus Testudo (Palearctic Tortoises)
SpeciesSpecies Testudo marginata (Marginated Tortoise)
range of species Testudo marginata
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Original Description Schoepff 1792 : 52
Type Locality Not stated; designated as "Greece, probably province of Attica, Stereá Eláda" by Bour (1986b:111)
Syntypes (3 specimens) MZUS 143 designated lectotype and figured by Bour 1986b:118, 120, and figured in original description.
Original name Testudo marginata
Common name Marginated Tortoise
Distribution Greece and extreme southern Albania; introduced on Sardinia and in Tuscany, Italy.
Comments Subgenus Testudo. Reviewed by Kock and Storch (1979), Bour (1986b), and Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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