EMYSystem Text Only Family Page: Testudinidae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
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Testudininae
Xerobatinae
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- Original Description
- Batsch 1788 : 437
- Original name
- Testudines
- Common Name
- Tortoises
- Distribution
- Almost worldwide in temperate and tropical terrestrial habitats; excluding Australia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Williams (1952), Loveridge and Williams (1957), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984:197-205), Crumly (1984b, c), and Swingland and Klemens (1989). Chromosomal relationships are discussed by Dowler and Bickham (1982). Phylogeny of the American species discussed by Rojas and Acu�a (1986). See Comment under Geochelone.
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