EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Homopus areolatus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species..............Homopus areolatus (Beaked Cape Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Thunberg 1787 : 180
- Holotype
- ZIUS 298
- Type Locality
- "India" (in error)
- Original name
- Testudo areolata
- Common Name
- Beaked Cape Tortoise
- Distribution
- Southern 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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