EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Homopus femoralis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species..............Homopus femoralis (Karroo Cape Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Boulenger 1888b : 251
- Syntypes
- (apparently 3 specimens) BMNH 1946.1.22.54 (formerly BMNH 1888.12.28.1) and two other specimens not located.
- Type Locality
- "Cradock" [Cape Province, Republic of South Africa]
- Original name
- Homopus femoralis
- Common Name
- Karroo Cape Tortoise
- Distribution
- 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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