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31024

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Order: Casichelydia
Family: Testudinidae
Species: Psammobates oculiferus  
Cat No: NRM 31024. N=1
Determiner: Smith, A 1838 Length: Preparation: Skin
Continent/Ocean: Africa Country: SOUTH AFRICA State/Province:
District: Municipality:
River Drainage: Lake Basin: Ocean:
Locality: The area from Kuruman (see remark) and roughly to Limpopo River
Field Number: SMITH-1849 Leg: Smith, A (ded?) Date: 1834-1836
SYNTYPE Testudo semiserrata A Smith, 1838
Object remarks: This is probably not the specimen figured in Smith, 1849 but the species is noted as aboundant. According to printed access report of 1849, A. Smith donated bats etc. but no tortoise is mentioned, nor in accession journal./EIÅ, 1994. If no lectotype is designated, this is a syntype. Locality on label: Africa Merid. / EIÅ, 2013
Locality remarks: Latakoo is assumed to equal Kuruman at -27.463374° 23.433995°

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