EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Homopus bergeri


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species..............Homopus bergeri (Berger's Cape tortoise)
Original Description
Lindholm 1906 : 348
Holotype
Not located
Type Locality
Gibeon, Gross-Namaqualand [Namibia]
Original name
Homopus bergeri
Common Name
Berger's Cape tortoise
Distribution
Southwestern Namibia
Comments
Removed from the synonymy of H. boulengeri by Boycott (1986:10), Branch (1988, 1989), and Branch (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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