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    Species Accepted

    Homopus areolatus (Thunberg, 1787)

    Beaked Cape Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Homopus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      17 results
      Areolen-Flachschildkröte German
      Beaked Cape Tortoise English
      Common Padloper English
      Groen-en-bruinpadloper Afrikaans
      Homopode aréolé French
      Padloper Afrikaans
      Papegaaibek-padloper Afrikaans
      Parrot-beaked Tortoise English
      Parrot-beaked dwarf tortoise English
      Parrotbeak Padloper English

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      37 results
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      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.
      Broschell, S. (2000). Leben und Fortpflanzung der Areolen-Flachschildkröte Homopus areolatus (THUNBERG, 1787). Sauria 22 (3): 3-9.
      Fritz, U., Tolley, K. A., Vamberger, M., & Ihlow, F. (2022). Phylogeny and phylogeography of chelonians from sub-Saharan Africa—A review of current knowledge in tribute to Margaretha D. Hofmeyr. Vertebrate Zoology, 72: 951-969.
      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].
      Schleicher, A. (2005). Homopus areolatus - The Parrot-Beaked Tortoise. Reptilia (GB) (43): 26-30.
      Fleck, J., & Fleck, S. (2001). Erfolgreiche Nachzucht von Chersina angulata und Homopus areolatus über mehrere Jahre. Elaphe 9 (3): 5-14.
      Joyce, Walter G. and Christopher J. Bell. (2004). A review of the comparative morphology of extant testudinoid turtles (Reptilia: Testudines). Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 53-109.
      Daudin, F. M. (1801) Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere des Reptiles. Tome Second. Imprimerie F. Dufart, Paris, 432 pp.
      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.

      Citation

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