Author: Broadley, Donald G.
Title: Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums. Volume 13. Part 14. A Review of the Populations of Kinixys (Testudinidae) Occurring in South-Eastern Africa.
Description: Cape Provincial Museum, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Natural History. Volume 13. Part 14. 6th July 1981. Stapled wraps, p.195-p216. illustrated, 184mm wide x 240mm high. New unread copy. The populations of hinged tortoises found in Africa south of Lat.25 degrees south are reviewed. Kinixys Natalensis Hewitt is reinstated as a full species. The southern material of Kinixys Belliana Gray appears to represent two subspecies. The large brightly patterend tortoises with thick-boned convex carapaces are assigned to the typical form (synonym: K.B. zuluensis Hewitt) which in this region is restricted to the coastal plain. The smaller relatively weakly patterned tortoises with thin depressed carapaces are assigned to K.B. spekii Gray (synonym: k. Australis Hewitt), which inhabits the escarpment and plateau areas but which descends onto the coastal plain in Mocambique. AIRMAIL worldwide at reduced letter rate on request.

Keywords: albany museum grahamstown eastern cape cape provincial museum south southern africa african tortoise mocambique mozambique testudinidae turtles tortoises


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