Skip to main content
Login

    Species Accepted

    Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827

    Common Spider Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Pyxis
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

      Loading

      Loading

      Loading

      Loading

      Loading

      Loading

      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      View all

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      22 results
      Common Spider Tortoise English
      Gewöhnliche Spinnenschildkröte German
      Kapika Malagasy
      Madagascan Spider Tortoise English
      Madagaskarspindelsköldpadda Swedish
      Madagassische Spinnenschildkröte German
      Northern Spider Tortoise
      Pyxide Arachnoide French
      Spider Tortoise English
      Spinnenschildkröte German

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      1 result
      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      35 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Barley, Shanta and Ryan C.J. Walker. (2013). Population Density and Seasonal Detection Rates of a Unique Population of Critically Endangered Northern Madagascar Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides brygooi). Herp. Cons. Biol. 8 (3).
      Vinke, T., & Vinke, S. (2005). Die Lanschildkröten Afrikas - Vielfalt durch Anpassung an extreme Lebensräume. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (56): 26-28.
      Vuillemin, Simone, Domergue, & Charles. (1972). Contribution a l’étude de la fauna de Madagascar: Description de Pyxoides brygooi n. gen. n. sp. (Testudinidae). Annales de l’Université de Madagascar (9): 193-200.
      Walker, Ryan C. J. (2010). The Decline of the Critically Endangered Northern Madagascar Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides brygooi). Herpetologica 66 (4): 411-417.
      Valverde, J. (2005). Afrikanische Landschildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (56): 18-25.
      Gray, J. E. (1869). Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata), and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869: 165-225.
      Chiari, Y., M. Thomas, M. Pedrono & D.R. Vieites. (2005). Preliminary data on genetic differentiation within the Madagascar spider tortoise, Pyxis arachnoides (Bell, 1827). Salamandra 41 (1-2): 35-44.
      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.
      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.

      Citation

      Pyxis arachnoides Bell, 1827 in undefined