EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Geochelone sulcata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Geochelone (Typical Tortoises)
species..............Geochelone sulcata (African Spurred Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Miller 1779 : Fig. 26
- Holotype
- Not located; although ZSM 2753/0 has the notation 'lectotype' in the museum's species catalog; however, this number is three juveniles of Geochelone denticulata according to Crumly pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "India orientali" (in error); erroneously listed as "Westindien" by Wermuth and Mertens (1961:224; 1977:90)
- Original name
- Testudo sulcata
- Common Name
- African Spurred Tortoise
- Distribution
- Central Africa from Mauritania and Senegal to Ethiopia
- Comments
- Subgenus Centrochelys according to Bour (1984c). Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989). Hirth and Latif (1981) reported on morphometrics of a Sudan population.
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