Centrochelys sulcata ( Gray, 1872 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 249

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968158

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF62-B88E-FF6B-43FE7D3F0969

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Centrochelys sulcata ( Gray, 1872 )
status

 

Centrochelys sulcata ( Gray, 1872) View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

African Spurred Tortoise

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. Native to the arid regions across central Africa (TTWG 2021), one individual of C. sulcata was photographed at NSSF on 3 September 2014 (L. Neo pers. comm.).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Genus Geochelone Fitzinger, 1835 (1 species)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Testudinidae

Genus

Centrochelys

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