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Common Name Scientific name Distribution Karoo padloper or Boulenger's cape tortoise: C. boulengeri: Karoo region [3] speckled padloper or speckled tortoise: C. signatus: South African west coast region, the smallest tortoise species in the world Nama padloper or Berger's cape tortoise, previously H. bergeri: C. solus: southern Namibia [4]
Chersobius signatus is the world's smallest species of tortoise (family Testudinidae). The species is commonly known as the speckled tortoise [1] [8] and also known locally as the speckled padloper [1] [9] and internationally as the speckled Cape tortoise. [1] A member of the genus Chersobius, it is endemic to South Africa. [9]
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Chersobius boulengeri is known by several common names. In southern Africa (and in much of the scientific community) it is known as the Karoo padloper, as it is the padloper species which is endemic to the Nama Karoo. [5] [6] It is also sometimes known as Boulenger's cape tortoise, as the Donner-weer tortoise, [9] [10] [11] and as Boulenger's ...
C. solus is threatened by traffic on roads, habitat destruction, and poaching for the pet trade. [citation needed] As the trade in collected Chersobius species is strictly illegal and any captive specimens are systematically registered in noncommercial studbooks in South Africa and Namibia, any commercial sale of Chersobius tortoises is almost without exception strictly illegal.
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Testudo, the Mediterranean tortoises, are a genus of tortoises found in North Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. Several species are under threat in the wild, mainly from habitat destruction . Background
Common Name(s) Scientific name Distribution Notes African spurred tortoise or Sulcata tortoise: Centrochelys sulcata: southern edge of the Sahara Desert: Third largest species of tortoise in the world; the largest non-island species. [1] African helmeted turtle Marsh terrapin: Pelomedusa subrufa: Very wide range Aldabra giant tortoise ...