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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species
species list
H. areolatus (Beaked Cape Tortoise)
H. bergeri (Berger's Cape tortoise)
H. boulengeri (Boulenger's Cape Tortoise)
H. femoralis (Karroo Cape Tortoise)
H. signatus (Speckled Cape Tortoise)
Original Description
Duméril and Bibron 1834 : 357
Common Name
Cape Tortoises
Distribution
Southern Africa
Comments
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), and Cooper and Broadley (1990).
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