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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Testudo (Palearctic Tortoises)
species..............Testudo kleinmanni (Egyptian Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Lortet 1883 : 188
- Syntypes
- (number uncertain) includes at least MNHN 9839; USNM 10979; SMF 7810; SMF 7810 designated lectotype by Mertens 1967:52.
- Type Locality
- "dans les sables de la basse Égypte, surtout dans les environs d'Alexandrie" [Egypt]
- Original name
- Testudo kleinmanni
- Common Name
- Egyptian Tortoise
- Distribution
- North Africa from Libya to southern Israel
- Comments
- Subgenus Pseudotestudo, although Bour (1988c:18) presents evidence that this subgenus is not diagnosable. Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Groombridge (1982), Buskirk (1985), and Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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