EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Chersina angulata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Chersina (Bowsprit Tortoises)
species..............Chersina angulata (South African Bowsprit Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 321
- Holotype
- Not designated, although in MNHN according to original description; a stuffed specimen received from the MNHN (SMF 7857) is not the specimen measured in Schweigger 1812, but may be a syntype according to Crumly pers. comm.; see also King and Burke 1989:71; MNHN 4087 is the syntype measured by Schweigger 1812:360, according to R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "Patria ignota" [= country unknown]
- Original name
- Testudo angulata
- Common Name
- South African Bowsprit Tortoise
- Distribution
- Namibia and Republic of South Africa
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Branch (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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