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    Species Accepted

    Psammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828)

    South African Starred Tortoise

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Höcker-Landschildkröte German
      Knoppiesdopskilpad Afrikaans
      South African Starred Tortoise English
      Sydafrikansk Teltskildpadde Danish
      Tent Tortoise English
      Tentskilpad Afrikaans
      Tortue bosselée French
      gwiazdniczek guzowaty Polish
      púpos sátorteknős Hungarian
      želva sluníčková Czech

      Treatments

      1 result

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      41 results
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      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      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.
      Smith, A. (1839). Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa, Reptilia. Smith, Elder, and Co., London.
      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].
      Mashinini, P. L., & Mahlangu, L. M. (2014). An annotated catalogue of the types of chelonians (Reptilia: Testudines) in the Herpetology collection of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 4:
      Valverde, J. (2005). Afrikanische Landschildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (56): 18-25.
      Branch, & R, W. (1992). Homopus ‘bergeri’ - a wrong name for a new tortoise from southern Namibia. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 40: 11.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2012). Seltenen Schildkröten Namibias auf der Spur. Terraria-Elaphe 2012 (1): 36-37.
      Boettger, O. (1889). Herpetologische Miscellen. [I Epirus, II Corfu, III Kamerun, IV Gross-Namaland, V Transvaal, VI. Pondoland, VII Madagascar, VIII Madras, IX Java, X Nias, XI Nordwest-Peru]. Bericht Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt): 267-316.

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