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    Species Accepted

    Psammobates geometricus (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Geometric Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Psammobates
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Geometric Tortoise English
      Geometric Turtle English
      Geometriese Skilpad Afrikaans
      Geometrische Landschildkröte German
      Geometrische landschildpad Dutch
      Sacafi Spanish
      Sakafi French
      Suurpootjie Afrikaans
      Tartaruga-geométrica Portuguese
      Tortue géométrique French

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      36 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae, per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. [10 th Ed.]. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
      Fraser, M. (2023). Reptiles and Amphibians of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. Biodiversity Observations 13: 162–185. 14 March 2023.
      Henen, Brian T.; Ulric P. van Bloemestein, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr & Craig A. Weatherby. (2017). Variation in the daily activity, movement and refugia of Critically Endangered geometric tortoises, Psammobates geometricus, in autumn and spring. African Journal of Herpetology 66 (2): 79-92.
      Sonnini de Manoncourt, C.S. and Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec Figures Dessinees d’Apres Nature. 3. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 332 Pp.
      Hoogmoed, M.S., and C.R. Crumly. (1984). Land tortoise types in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire with comments on nomenclature and systematics (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 58(15): 241-259.
      Rau, R. (1971). Weitere Angaben über die geometrische Landschildkröte, Testudo geometrica. Salamandra 7 (3-4):123-136.
      Stanford, C.B. et al. (2020). Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble. Current Biology 30: R721–R735.
      Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Melita Vamberger, William Branch, Alfred Schleicher and Savel R. Daniels. (2016). Tortoise (Reptilia, Testudinidae) radiations in Southern Africa from the Eocene to the present. Zoologica Scripta 46: 389–400, DOI: 10.1111/Zsc.12223 [Record Online: 18 NOV 2016].
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.

      Citation

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