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    Species Accepted

    Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828)

    Eastern Leopard Tortoise

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      38 results
      Bergskilpad Afrikaans
      Eastern Leopard Tortoise English
      Eli [el-lee] Amharic
      Ggupe-ko hts
      Khudu-kgomo Sotho, Northern
      Khudutlou Tswana
      Kobe Swahili
      Leopard Tortoise English
      Leopardenschildkröte German
      Leopardskildpadde Danish

      Treatments

      2 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      123 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      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).
      Loveridge, A. (1936). African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2013). Die Pantherschildkröte Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1928). Testudo. 22 (3): 15-36. Testudo. 22 (3): 15-36.
      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.
      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].
      McMaster, M.K. & C.T. Downs. (2009). Home Range and Daily Movement of Leopard Tortoises (Stigmochelys pardalis) in the Nama-Karoo, South Africa. Journal of Herpetology 43 (4): 561-569.
      Coombs, G. (2016). Stigmochelys pardalis (Leopard Tortoise) road mortality. Herpetological Review 47(3): 449-450.
      Caccone, Adalgisa; George Amato; Oliver C. Gratry; John Behler and Jeffrey R. Powell. (1999). A Molecular Phylogeny of Four Endangered Madagascar Tortoises Based on MtDNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12 (1): 1–9.
      Gray, J. E. (1873). Hand-list of the specimens of shield reptiles in the British Museum. British Museum, London, 124 Pp.

      Citation

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