The angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata) is a species of tortoise found in dry areas and coastal scrub vegetation in South Africa. This tortoise is the...
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angonoka, ploughshare tortoise, Madagascar tortoise, or Madagascar angulated tortoise. There may be fewer than 400 of these tortoises left in the wild. It...
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Sombrero giant tortoise, Late Pleistocene Chersina Gray 1830:5 Chersina angulata, angulated tortoise, South African bowsprit tortoise † Cheirogaster Bergounioux...
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Flowering Watsonia geophyte Phylica pubescens Leucospermum cordifolium Angulate tortoise Biodiversity of Cape Town List of nature reserves in Cape Town Kogelberg...
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extinction. It is also a natural habitat for wild animals such as the angulate tortoise, the small grey mongoose and the endangered Cape rain frog. Three...
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reptiles of any African country. Endemic species include the angulate tortoise and geometric tortoise, the Zululand dwarf chameleon, the Transkei dwarf chameleon...
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is mostly nocturnal and rarely seen. Small reptiles such as the angulate tortoise, the marsh terrapin and a range of snakes and lizards are also found...
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habitat for amphibians and about 20 species of reptile such as the angulate tortoise, marsh terrapin and mole snake. Porcupines, grysbok, otters and mongoose...
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Polycephaly (redirect from Two-headed tortoise)
Tainan, Taiwan, by a villager named Lin Chi-fa. In 2003, a two-headed angulate tortoise was discovered in South Africa, with the only other known case in...
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leatherback turtle Stigmochelys pardalis - leopard tortoise Chersina angulata - angulate tortoise Homopus areolatus - common padloper Pelomedusa subrufa...
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guineafowl (Numida meleagris), yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) and Angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata). In “poor food areas” of the Matobo Hills, three...
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ostrich-shell remains, no ostrich bones have been found. Tortoise bones are mostly those of the angulate tortoise that is still found in the area. These are noted...
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gecko) Bradypodion pumilum (Cape dwarf chameleon) Chersina angulata (angulate tortoise) Lycodonomorphus rufulus (common brown water snake) Meroles knoxii...
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chameleon) Chamaesaura anguina (Cape grass lizard) Chersina angulata (angulate tortoise) Cordylus cordylus (Cape girdled lizard) Cordylus niger (black girdled...
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Testudinidae - tortoise Genus Aldabrachelys Genus Astrochelys Genus Centrochelys Genus Chelonoidis Genus Chersina - angulate tortoise Genus Chersobius...
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tortoises throughout their evolutionary history is published by Silveira et al. (2023). A study on the bone histology of fossil and extant angulate tortoises...
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Testudinidae Genus Chersina: Chersina angulata (Schweigger, 1812), angulate tortoise, syn. Testudo angulata Schweigger, 1812, Goniochersus angulata Lindholm...
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Testudinidae Chersina angulata (angulate tortoise) Homopus areolatus (parrot-beaked tortoise), (parrotbeaked tortoise) Typhlopidae Rhinotyphlops lalandei...
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depressed, with a vertebral keel in juveniles. The plastron is large, strongly angulate laterally in the young, convex in the adult. The head is rather small,...
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leopard, caracal, grey duiker, Cape grysbok, steenbok, mongoose, angulate and padloper tortoises and over 170 species of bird. Part of the Hottentots Holland...
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broad in the adult, narrower than the costals. The plastron is large, angulate laterally, truncate anteriorly. The posterior lobe of the plastron is much...
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fourth; fifth vertebral broader than the others. Plastron large, strongly angulated laterally in the young, truncate anteriorly, angularly notched posteriorly;...
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than long in the young, and as long as broad in the adult. Plastron is angulate laterally in the young. The anterior and posterior lobes are rather narrow...
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than they are in the red imported fire ant, and the pronotum has strong angulate shoulders. Such character is almost absent in the red imported fire ant...
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