EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Malacochersus tornieri
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Malacochersus (Pancake Tortoises)
species..............Malacochersus tornieri (African Pancake Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Siebenrock 1903b : 443
- Holotype
- ZMB 11740, destroyed during World War II.
- Type Locality
- "bei Bussisia [= Busisi] am Viktoria Nyanza" [Tanzania]
- Original name
- Testudo tornieri
- Common Name
- African Pancake Tortoise
- Distribution
- Kenya and Tanzania
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Groombridge (1982), and Broadley (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989)
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