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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Homopus (Cape Tortoises)
species..............Homopus signatus (Speckled Cape Tortoise)
Original Description
Gmelin 1789 : 1043
Holotype
Not designated; the Plate labelled "Testud. Sign. var." in Walbaum 1782 was designated lectotype by Bour 1988a:1 and reproduced in that work.
Type Locality
Not stated; designated as "vicinity of Springbok, Cape Province, South Africa" by Bour (1988a:3)
Original name
Testudo signata
Common Name
Speckled Cape Tortoise
Distribution
Western Cape Province, Republic of South Africa
Comments
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott (1986), Bour (1988a), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Boycott (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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