Home's Hinge-back Tortoise
Kinixys homeana Bell, 1827
Also calledKinixys de Home (fra) · Stutz-Gelenkschildkröte (deu) · Tartaruga-articulada-do-oeste-africano (por) · Vestafrikansk Ledskildpadde (dan) · púpos zsanérteknős (hun) · zawiasek zachodniofrykański (pol) · želva Homeova (ces) · سلحفاة المنزل مفصلية الظهر (ara) · ホームセオレガメ (jpn) · 荷葉折背龜 (zho)
First described in: Bell, T. On two new genera of land tortoises.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Comments. This species is only known in Equatorial Guinea from a single specimen found at Monte Mitra (Gonwouo & Nsang 2005). It is the sister species of K. erosa (Kindler et al. 2012). Specimens examined. No specimens were found in the examined collections.
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
distribution
Distribution. West and Central Africa, from Liberia to Central African Republic, with some dubious records in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Rhodin et al. 2017). In Equatorial Guinea it has been found in Monte Mitra at Monte Alén National Park (Gonwouo & Nsang 2005) and it is expected to be found to the North-west of Río Muni, close to the border with Cameroon, where several records exist from the latter country (Iverson 1992; Rhodin et al. 2017) (Map 2 C).
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
description
Boulenger 1889: 143 (specimens a and b); and OUM 8522 (illustrated in the original description, Pl. XVII, and reproduced in Bour 2006 e: 9, Pl. 1); Nowak-Kemp & Fritz 2010: 15), which was designated as the lectoype by Bour (2006 e: 9).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Kinixys homeana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441703.