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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Kinixys (Hinge-back Tortoises)
species..............Kinixys homeana (Home's Hinge-back Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Bell 1827 : 400
- Syntypes
- at least OUM 8522
- Type Locality
- "Africā occidentali"
- Original name
- Kinixys homeana
- Common Name
- Home's Hinge-back Tortoise
- Distribution
- Liberia to Cameroon and eastern Zaire
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957) and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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