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)
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- 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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