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    Species Accepted

    Malacochersus tornieri (Siebenrock, 1903)

    African Pancake Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Malacochersus
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      African Pancake Tortoise English
      Crevice Tortoise English
      Ggoro-ko hts
      Kobe kama Chapati Swahili
      Kobe ya Mawe Swahili
      Korytnačka škárová Slovak
      Pancake Tortoise English
      Soft-shelled Tortoise English
      Softshell Tortoise English
      Spaltenschildkröte German

      Treatments

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      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      53 results
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      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.
      SHOO, RAY; MOHAMED NASSORO & REGINALD T. MWAYA. (2022). The effects of handling on natural populations of the Critically Endangered Pancake Tortoise, Malacochersus tornieri (Testudines: Testudinidae). Salamandra 58(2): 151–156.
      Cimatti, E. (2006). African Jewels: Tanzania on foot. Reptilia (GB) (46): 65-70.
      Chansa, W., & Wagner, P. (2006). On the status of Malacochersus tornieri (SIEBENROCK, 1903) in Zambia. Salamandra 42 (2-3): 187-190.
      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.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Cornejo-Páramo, P., Lira-Noriega, A., Ramírez-Suástegui, C. et al. (2020). Sex determination systems in reptiles are related to ambient temperature but not to the level of climatic fluctuation. BMC Evol Biol 20: 103.
      Hennen, U. (2001). Categories of the Red List. Radiata 10 (3): 23-28.

      Citation

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