EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Testudo marginata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Testudo (Palearctic Tortoises)
species..............Testudo marginata (Marginated Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Schoepff 1792 : 52
- Syntypes
- (3 specimens) MZUS 143 designated lectotype and figured by Bour 1986b:118, 120, and figured in original description.
- Type Locality
- Not stated; designated as "Greece, probably province of Attica, Stereá Eláda" by Bour (1986b:111)
- Original name
- Testudo marginata
- Common Name
- Marginated Tortoise
- Distribution
- Greece and extreme southern Albania; introduced on Sardinia and in Tuscany, Italy.
- Comments
- Subgenus Testudo. Reviewed by Kock and Storch (1979), Bour (1986b), and Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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