EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kinixys natalensis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Kinixys (Hinge-back Tortoises)
species..............Kinixys natalensis (Natal Hinge-back Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Hewitt 1935 : 353
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) AMG 6975A and unnumbered; the unnumbered AMG specimen was designated lectotype by Broadley 1981a:206-207.
- Type Locality
- "Jameson Drift, Tugela River . . . and . . . Dimane stream, near Jameson Drift." [Natal Prov., Republic of South Africa]
- Original name
- Kinixys natalensis
- Common Name
- Natal Hinge-back Tortoise
- Distribution
- Eastern Republic of South Africa (eastern Transvaal and Natal), Swaziland, and southern Mozambique
- Comments
- Previously considered a synonym of K. belliana (e.g., see Loveridge and Williams, 1957:388), but elevated to species status by Broadley (1981a). Reviewed by Boycott and Bourquin (1988), Boycott and Jacobsen (1988), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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