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Kinixys spekii |
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Kinixys belliana |
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Tortue ŕ dos articulé des savanes |
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Speke's Hingeback Tortoise |
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The elongated and flattened hinged carapace measures up to 20 cm. It is dark brown or blackish with a variable pattern of light olive-brown blotches. Head is brown or yellowish. The forefoot has five claws. Males have concave plastra and longer, thicker tails. The plastra of the larger females is flat, and the tail is short. |
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Rocky areas, savannas. |
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Omnivorous (herbs, invertebrates and fungi). |
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2 to 10 eggs per laying. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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