Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise
Pyxis planicauda (Grandidier, 1867)
Also calledFlachrücken-Spinnenschildkröte (deu) · Flachrückenschildkröte (deu) · Kapidolo (mlg) · Madagassische Flachrücken-Schildkröte (deu) · Pyxide à dos plat (fra) · Pyxide à queue platte (fra) · Tartaruga-aranha-de-casco-plano (por) · Tortue de Cola Plana (spa) · Västlig spindelsköldpadda (swe) · lapos pókteknős (hun) · Želva pavoukovitá (ces) · želva ploskoocasá (ces) · Плоская черепаха (rus) · Плоскохвостая черепаха (rus)
First described in: Grandidier, A. Liste des reptiles nouveaux découverts, en 1866, sur la côte sud-ouest de Madagascar.
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Holotype: MNHN 9373 (illustrated in Vaillant & Grandidier 1910: Pl. 4 and reproduced in Bour 2005 c: 24; photographed in Bour 2005 c: 23 and Bour 1981: 140 – 141). NWM 23479 erroneously considered a cotype (e. g., Tiedemann & Häupl 1980: 8; Tiedemann et al. 1994: 13) according to Bour (2005 c: 22). Testudo morondavensis Vuillemin 1972: 17 Holotype: MNHN A. 276 (photographed in the original description, Pl. 1, and in Bour 2005 c: 26).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5220316.