EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Homopus signatus
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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)
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- 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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