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African Spurred Tortoise

Centrochelys sulcata (Miller 1779)

Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, S Mauritania, Senegal, Central African Republic (range generally lies along the southern perimeter of the Sahara Desert), Cameroon
Type locality: "India orientali" (in error); incorrectly listed as "Westindien" by Wermuth and Mertens 1961:224, and Wermuth and Mertens 1977:90.
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