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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Chersina (Bowsprit Tortoises)
species
species list
C. angulata (South African Bowsprit Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 5
- Common Name
- Bowsprit Tortoises
- Distribution
- As for the single species
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957). Not the Chersina of Humphreys (1797); see ICZN decision number 1956.
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