EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinixys belliana
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Kinixys (Hinge-back Tortoises)
species..............Kinixys belliana (Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 69
- Holotype
- BMNH 1979.919; not BMNH 1947.3.5.73 as originally indicated in the BMNH catalog, according to Broadley 1981a:196.
- Type Locality
- Not stated; "West Africa" according to label on BMNH 1947.3.5.73
- Original name
- Kinixys belliana
- Common Name
- Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise
- Distribution
- Ethiopia to Senegal to Botswana and Republic of South Africa; Madagascar (where it may be introduced)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Broadley (1981a), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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