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Malacochersus
Taxonomy
Malacochersus was named by Lindholm (1929). It is extant.
It was assigned to Testudinini by Swingland and Klemens (1989); and to Testudinidae by Frank and Ramus (1996), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Testudinini by Swingland and Klemens (1989); and to Testudinidae by Frank and Ramus (1996), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and van Dijk et al. (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1929 | Malacochersus Lindholm |
| 1989 | Malacochersus Swingland and Klemens p. 124 |
| 1996 | Malacochersus Frank and Ramus |
| 2014 | Malacochersus de la Fuente et al. |
| 2014 | Malacochersus van Dijk et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Malacochersus Lindholm 1929
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Malacochersus tornieri Siebenrock 1903 [African pancake tortoise]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available