EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pyxis arachnoides
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Pyxis (Spider Tortoises)
species..............Pyxis arachnoides (Common Spider Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Bell 1827 : 395
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) OUM 1092; OUM 8528; OUM 1092 (=13a)
- Type Locality
- Not stated; designated as "Soalara (Baie de Saint-Augustin), sud-ouest de Madagascar" by Bour (1978:153)
- Original name
- Pyxis arachnoides
- Common Name
- Common Spider Tortoise
- Distribution
- Southwestern Madagascar
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bour (1978, 1981), Obst (1978, 1980), Groombridge (1982), and Durrell et al. (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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