Greater Dwarf Tortoise
Homopus femoralis Boulenger, 1888
Also calledGrootpadloper (afr) · Große Zwergschildkröte (deu) · Homopode à éperon (fra) · Sporn-Flachschildkröte (deu) · sarkantyús bozótteknős (hun) · želvička větší (ces) · سلحفاة قزمة كبرى (ara) · オオヒラセリクガメ (jpn) · 卡魯珍龜 (zho)
First described in: Boulenger, G. A. Description of a new land-tortoise from South Africa, from a specimen living in the Society’s Gardens.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Indotestudo elongata (Blyth 1853: 639) Syntypes (4): ZSI 796, 798, 799, and 800 (Das et al. 1998: 127; Das 2009: 4; all photographed and recorded in Kundu et al. 2018: 9, 11 – 12; see also Bourret 1941: 189).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
materials_examined
Holotype: ZSI 11379 (Das et al. 1998: 128; not mentioned in Kundu et al. 2018); paratypes, not located.
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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Every page naming Homopus femoralis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5220253.