EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinixys erosa
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Kinixys (Hinge-back Tortoises)
species..............Kinixys erosa (Serrated Hinge-back Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 321
- Syntypes
- (possibly 3 specimens) Not located; possibly in the Mannheim Museum and Leverian Museum according to R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "America septentrionali" (in error)
- Original name
- Testudo erosa
- Common Name
- Serrated Hinge-back Tortoise
- Distribution
- Gambia to Republic of the Congo and Uganda
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957) and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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