Poole, Karen E.
Chersina
Sign in to saveChersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. It contains a single living species, the angulate tortoise. A fossil species, Chersina langebaanwegi, is known from the Early Pliocene of South Africa.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyOrthalicidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Collections
- UTA, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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- Parent taxon
- Testudinidae
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- Chersina angulata tortoise.jpg
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Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. It contains a single living species, the angulate tortoise. A fossil species, Chersina langebaanwegi, is known from the Early Pliocene of South Africa.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chersina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.