EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Geochelone denticulata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Geochelone (Typical Tortoises)
species..............Geochelone denticulata (South American Yellow-footed Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Linnaeus 1766 : 352
- Holotype
- NRM De Geer collection 21, according to Andersson 1900:25.
- Type Locality
- "Virginia" [USA]; in error
- Original name
- Testudo denticulata
- Common Name
- South American Yellow-footed Tortoise
- Distribution
- South America, east of the Andes, from Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and Brazil; Trinidad
- Comments
- Subgenus Chelonoidis according to Bour (1984c). See Comment under Geochelone carbonaria and Geochelone elephantina. Reviewed by Castaņo and Lugo (1981), Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), and Walker (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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