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    Species Accepted

    Kinixys belliana Gray, 1831

    Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Kinixys

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 1 country or island

      1 result
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhaNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      20 results
      Bell se Skarnierskilpad Afrikaans
      Bell's Hinge-back Tortoise English
      Bell's eastern hinged tortoise English
      Bell’s Hingeback Tortoise English
      Bell’s hinged tortoise English
      Common Hinge Tortoise English
      Glattrand-Gelenkschildkröte German
      Kinixys de Bell French
      Tartaruga-de-Bell Portuguese
      Testuggine a cerniera posteriore di Bell Italian

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      88 results
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      Branch, W.R.; Rödel, M.-O. & Marais, J. (2005). Herpetological survey of the Niassa Game Reserve, northern Mozambique - Part I: Reptiles. Salamandra 41 (4): 195-214.
      Hoogmoed, M. S. (1979). Herpetologische waarnemingen in Ghana [part 1 - introduction]. Lacerta 37 (10-11): 164-168.
      Loveridge, A. (1953). Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322.
      Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer. (2018). Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II).
      Bour, & Roger. (2006). Le genre Kinixys Bell: histoire nomenclaturale et taxinomique. Chéloniens 3:8-15.
      Gray, J. E. (1864). On the species of the genus Sternothaerus, with some observations on Kinixys. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 165-170.
      Conradie W and Branch WR. (2016). The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10 (2) [Special Section]: 6–36.
      Hewitt, J. (1931). Descriptions of some African tortoises. Annals of the Natal Museum Pietermaritzburg. 6: 461-506.
      Laurent, R. F. (1962). On the races of Kinixys belliana Gray. Breviora (176): 1-6.

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