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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)
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- 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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