Leopard Tortoise
Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828)
Also calledBergskilpad (afr) · Eli [el-lee] (amh) · Khudutlou (tsn) · Kobe (swa) · Leopardenschildkröte (deu) · Leopardskildpadde (dan) · Leopardskilpadde (nob) · Luipaardschildpad (nld) · Panterschildpad (nld) · Pantherschildkröte (deu) · Tartaruga-leopardo (por) · Testuggine leopardo (ita) · Testuggine leopardo centrafricana (ita) · Testuggine leopardo sudafricana (ita)
First described in: Bell, T. Descriptions of three new species of land tortoises.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
Holotype: MNHN 9368. Testudo bipunctata Gray 1830: 4 Holotype: MNHN 9368 (see also Testudo biguttata). Testudo pardalis babcocki Loveridge 1935: 4 Holotype: MCZ 40003 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946: 202); paratypes (27 according to the original description, 13 in the MCZ and 14 in the BMNH), FMNH 73482 (Marx 1958: 451); and MCZ 7990, 18156 - 58, 18160, 30001 - 02, 31984 - 85, and 40004 - 05 (Barbour & Loveridge 1946: 202). The BMNH catalogue lists no paratypes.
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
materials_examined
Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXV); probably originally in the OUM, but apparently lost, since not listed in Nowak-Kemp & Fritz (2010).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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Every page naming Stigmochelys pardalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441757.