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Psammobates oculifer (KUHL, 1820)

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Higher TaxaTestudinidae, Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Serrated Tent Tortoise, Kalahari Tent Tortoise, Serrated Tortoise 
SynonymTestudo oculifera KUHL 1820
Testudo semiserrata SMITH 1840
Testudo semi-serrata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 220
Testudo oculifera — SIEBENROCK 1899
Testudo oculifera — WERNER 1902
Testudo oculifera — WERNER 1910: 301
Psammobates oculifer — PRITCHARD 1967
Psammobates oculifer — AUERBACH 1987: 68
Psammobates oculiferus — KING & BURKE 1989
Psammobates oculifer — BAUER et al. 1993
Psammobates oculiferus — VALVERDE 2005
Psammobates oculiferus — BONIN et al 2006
Psammobates oculifer — BATES et al. 2015: 81
Psammobates oculifer — HOFMEYR et al. 2016
Psammobates oculifer — TTWG 2017: 147
Psammobates oculiferus — SCHLEICHER 2020
Psammobates oculifer — TTWG 2021
Psammobates oculifer — SCHLEICHER 2020 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (from extreme W Transvaal and the W Orange Free State northwestward), Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Type locality: "vom Cap dahin gebracht worden," [i.e. Republic of South Africa].  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 223; destroyed in World War II. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - get paper here
  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
  • BOURQUIN, O. & V. GRUENER 2017. A NOTE ON THE HERPETOFAUNA OF MODISA CAMP (BOTSWANA) AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. African Herp News (64): 9-26 - get paper here
  • BROADLEY, D.G. ,.HUNT, J. & CANTLE, G. 2010. Psammobates oculifer (Kuhl, 1820). African Herp News (51): 24-25 - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, W., DOUCETTE-RIISE, S., VANHOOYDONCK, B., ENGELBRECHT, H., MEASEY, G.J., & TOLLEY, K. 2011. Herpetological survey of Rooipoort Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. African Herp News (53): 35-41 - get paper here
  • Cunningham, Peter. 2014. Psammobates oculifer (Kuhl, 1820) Serrated Tent Tortoise. Dormancy. African Herp News (61): 19 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A. M.C., G. BIBRON & A. DUMÉRIL 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 9. Paris, XX + 440 S. - get paper here
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Greig, J.C., and P.D. Burdett. 1976. Patterns in the distributions of Southern African terrestrial tortoises (Cryptodira: Testudinidae). Zool. Africana 11(2): 250-267.
  • Heaton, Jill S., James O. Juvik and Kiinge Amutenya. 2015. Psammobates oculifer Kuhl, 1820, Serrated Tent Tortoise, Winter Activity. African Herp News (62): 28-29 - get paper here
  • Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
  • Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.; Melita Vamberger, William Branch, Alfred Schleicher and Savel R. Daniels 2016. Tortoise (Reptilia, Testudinidae) radiations in Southern Africa from the Eocene to the present. Zoologica Scripta 46: 389–400, DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12223 [Record online: 18 NOV 2016] - get paper here
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  • Keswick, Toby & Margaretha D. Hofmeyr 2013. Population ecology of Psammobates oculifer in a semi-arid environment. African Journal of Herpetology 62 (2): 63-77 - get paper here
  • Keswick, Toby and Margaretha D. Hofmeyr. 2015. Sexual dimorphism and geographic variation in the morphology of a small southern African tortoise Psammobates oculifer. Amphibia-Reptilia 36 (1): 55-64 - get paper here
  • Keswick, Toby and Margaretha Hofmeyr. 2014. Refuge characteristics and preferences of Psammobates oculifer in semi-arid savanna. Amphibia-Reptilia 35 (1): 41-51 - get paper here
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