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Geometric tortoise
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Testudines
Suborder:
Cryptodira
Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
Family:
Testudinidae
Genus:
Psammobates
Species:
P. geometricus
Binomial name
Psammobates geometricus
(Linnaeus, 1758)[3]
Synonyms
Testudo geometrica Linnaeus, 1758
Testudo luteola Daudin, 1801
Chersine geometrica Merrem, 1820
Psammobates geometricus Fitzinger, 1843
Peltastes geographicus Gray, 1869
Peltastes geometricus Gray, 1870
Peltastes geometrica Gray, 1872
Chersinella geometrica Hewitt, 1933
Chersinella strauchi Hewitt, 1933
Psammobates geometrica Obst, 1978
Geochelone geometrica Obst, 1980
Psammnobates geometricus Ulber, 1996
The geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus) is a critically endangered species of tortoise and one of three members of the genus Psammobates. It is found in a very small section in the South-Western Cape of South Africa.
^Hofmeyr, M.D.; Baard, E.H.W. (2018). "Psammobates geometricus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T18398A173894530. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T18398A173894530.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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acres of the last remaining habitat for the critically endangered geometrictortoise (Psammobates geometricus). The Turtle Conservancy secured approximately...
any African country. Endemic species include the angulate tortoise and geometrictortoise, the Zululand dwarf chameleon, the Transkei dwarf chameleon...
preserve a habitat for the rare and declining geometrictortoise (Psammobates geometricus). This tortoise is now locally extinct, but the reserve still...
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theft and invasive alien plants such as wattles and Kikuyu grass. The Geometrictortoise used to be found primarily in Alluvium Fynbos. Now, with its habitat...
originally established to preserve a habitat for the rare and declining geometrictortoise (Psammobates geometricus), which is now locally extinct, but the reserve...
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fruit-eating birds (e.g. bulbuls, Cape white-eyes) and other animals (e.g. geometrictortoises, chacma baboons). During spring, renosterveld flowers attract a wide...
non-Western cultures. From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism and the Vienna Secession; the bright colours of Fauvism...
copper, tortoise shell, and mother-of-pearl. Sometimes copper decoration was placed on a background of tortoise shell, and sometimes the tortoise shell...
to the geometric patterns found in plants and flowers, to the shapes of jellyfish and the intricate patterns found on the shell of a tortoise. Composer...
number from China, made of various materials, from glass, to wood, to tortoise shell. Many of these unusual and exquisite tangram sets made their way...
such, called "lines" but not necessarily considered as measurements of geometric objects, to prove algebraic propositions concerning multiplication, division...
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