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Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis)

Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis)

Leopard Tortoise, Botswana


Class: Reptilia
Family: Testudinidae
Common Name: Leopard Tortoise
Genus: Geochelone
Species Name: pardalis

About The Leopard Tortoise

Continent: Africa
Distribution: S Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,  Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Angola, (Namibia, Mozambique,  Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana ?), Swaziland, Zambia  babcocki: Namibia, Uganda, Somalia;
Type locality: Mount Debasien, Karamoja, Uganda  
Type locality: "Promont. Bonae Spei" (= Cape of Good Hope), Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.

Rights Holder: Peter Uetz

Trips Where Observed

Africa: Eastern and Southern

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