EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Homopus boulengeri
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species..............Homopus boulengeri (Boulenger's Cape Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Duerden 1906 : 406
- Holotype
- BMNH 1946.1.23.4, formerly BMNH 1906.6.21
- Type Locality
- "South Africa - Districts of Willowmore, Aberdeen and Beaufort West"
- Original name
- Homopus boulengeri
- Common Name
- Boulenger's Cape Tortoise
- Distribution
- Southern Republic of South Africa
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Boycott (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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