EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pyxis planicauda
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Pyxis (Spider Tortoises)
species..............Pyxis planicauda (Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Grandidier 1867 : 233
- Holotype
- MNHN 9373
- Type Locality
- "Mouroundava" [western Madagascar]; restricted by Bour (1981:165) to "Morondava, province de Tuléar, Madagascar (pourrait être restreinte a la forêt d'Andranomena)"
- Original name
- Testudo planicauda
- Common Name
- Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise
- Distribution
- Known only from near the type locality in western Madagascar
- Comments
- Transferred from the monotypic genus Acinixys by Bour (1981) and supported by Obst (1980); however, Crumly (1984c, 1988) supported the retention of Acinixys. Also reviewed by Obst (1978, as Acinixys planicauda; 1980), Groombridge (1982), and Durrell et al. (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989; as Acinixys planicauda). Includes Testudo morondavaensis Vuillemin (1972:127).
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