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Psammobates oculiferus (Serrated Tortoise)

Synonyms: Testudo oculifera; Testudo semiserrata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  318 grams
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Etosha National Park II 5699141 Namibia  
Kalahari Gemsbok National Park II 2382284 Northern Cape, South Africa
West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park VI 1448182 Namibia  

Prey / Diet

Tribulus terrestris (puncturevine)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Crithagra sulphurata (Brimstone Canary)1
Stigmochelys pardalis (Leopard Tortoise)1
Streptopelia decipiens (Mourning Collared Dove)1

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
♦ 2Sighting frequency and food habits of the leopard tortoise, Geochelone pardalis, in northern Tanzania, J. Kabigumila, Afr. J. Ecol., 39, 276-285 (2001)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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