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| Chersobius signatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Testudinidae |
| Genus: | Chersobius |
| Species: | C. signatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Chersobius signatus | |
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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]
- ^ a b c d Hofmeyr, M.D.; Loehr, V.J.T.; Baard, E.H.W. (2018). "Chersobius signatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T10241A115650943. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T10241A115650943.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ a b Gmelin, Galosi, L., Attili, AR. (2021). Health assessment of mild speckled dwarf tortoises, CHERSOBIUS SIGNATUS. BMC Veterinary Research. Johann Frederic (1789). Caroli a Linné, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 13. Tom. I. Pars III. Leipzig: G.E. Beer, Ed. 13, 1 (3): 1033–1516. (Testudo signata, new species, p. 1043). (in Latin).
- ^ Walbaum, Johann Julius (1782). Chelonographia oder Beschreibung einiger Schildkröten. Lubeck: J.F. Gleditsch, 132 pp. (in German).
- ^ Daudin, François Marie (1801). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles. Tome Second. Paris: Imprimerie F. Dufart. 432 pp. (in French).
- ^ Daudin, François Marie (1802). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Reptiles. Tome Quatrième. Paris: Imprimerie F. Dufart. 397 pp. (in French).
- ^ Hewitt, John (1935). "Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa". Records of the Albany Museum 4: 283–357.
- ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.]. 2014. Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
- ^ Obst J, Richter K, Jacob U (1988). The Completely Illustrated Atlas of Reptiles and Amphibians for the Terrarium, T.F.H. Press.
- ^ a b Homopus Research Foundation web site (accessed August 24, 2013).
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