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Homopus femoralis (Karroo Tortoise; karroo Cape tortoise)

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater padloper (Homopus femoralis) is a small tortoise of the Homopus genus, indigenous to the highveld grasslands of South Africa.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  393 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.321 lbs (599 g)
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Highveld grasslands South Africa Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Nama Karoo Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0