EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Psammobates tentorius
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Psammobates (South African Star Tortoises)
species..............Psammobates tentorius (Tent Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Bell 1828a : 420
- Holotype
- OUM 8570
- Type Locality
- "Africā?"
- Original name
- Testudo tentoria
- Common Name
- Tent Tortoise
- Distribution
- Namibia and Republic of South Africa
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Greig and Burdett (1976), Boycott and Bourquin (1988), and Branch (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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