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Published January 5, 2025 | Version v1
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Kinixys erosa

Authors/Creators

  • 1. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Asociado, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal; & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal;
  • 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Asociado, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal; & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal; & Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany; & TwinLab CIBIO / ISCED, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola;
  • 3. School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;
  • 4. Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; & Enviro-Insight, Pretoria, South Africa;
  • 5. Department of Natural History, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, Canada; & Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States;
  • 6. Port Elizabeth Museum, Gqeberha, South Africa; & School of Natural Resource Management, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa;
  • 7. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Asociado, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal; & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal; & TwinLab CIBIO / ISCED, Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola; & Fundação Kissama, Luanda, Angola.

Description

Kinixys erosa (Schweigger, 1812)

Figure 8A

Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Inhuca; –4.8590, 12.4440; 81 m a.s.l.; P2.208; GenBank: PQ456003. • Chilito, Mbundo; –4.7279, 12.5068; 83 m a.s.l.; P3.543; GenBank: PQ456004.

Identification. A large tortoise with spiny and upturned marginal scutes (Branch 2008). Specimens collected in Cabinda Province differ by>2% (16S p -distance) from material collected from Equateur, DRC (GenBank: LR697076) and by 3.5% from its sister species Kinixys homeana (GenBank: DQ 424975).

Biology and distribution. A rainforest dweller widely distributed across West and Central Africa, from Guinea and Sierra Leone to Uganda and southwards to northern Angola (Sánchez-Vialas et al. 2022). We sampled two individuals caught by local people in primary rainforest and for human consumption, afterwards confiscated by rangers and released in Mayombe NP.

Notes

Published as part of Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Ninda L, Clark, Tyron, Verburgt, Luke, Jongsma, Gregory Fm, Conradie, Werner, and, Luis Veríssimo, Vaz, Pedro & Pinto, 2025, Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa, pp. 1-59 in African Journal of Herpetology 74 (1) on pages 1-59, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007, http://zenodo.org/record/15555966

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787B8FF98B738FF7131CAFBE0998C

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.15555990 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/15555966 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDEFFC0FFB0B710FFD1313EFFD39B07 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03E787B8FF98B738FF7131CAFBE0998C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/263454698 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/310373/taxon/03E787B8FF98B738FF7131CAFBE0998C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schweigger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cryptodira
Family
Testudinidae
Genus
Kinixys
Species
erosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Kinixys erosa (Schweigger, 1812) sec. Lobón-Rovira, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Clark, Verburgt, Jongsma, Conradie, and, Vaz & Pinto, 2025

References

  • Branch WR. 2008. Tortoises, Terrapins & Turtles of Africa. Cape Town: Struiks, 128 pp.
  • Sanchez-Vialas A, Calvo-Revuelta M, de La Riva I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1