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Homopus areolatus, commonly known as the common padloper or parrot-beaked tortoise, is a tiny species of tortoise of the genus Homopus, indigenous to...

1834:357 Homopus areolatus, common padloper, parrot-beaked tortoise, beaked Cape tortoise Homopus femoralis, greater padloper, greater dwarf tortoise Indotestudo...

these closely related species are commonly known in Europe and Africa as padlopers (originally meaning "path-walkers" in Afrikaans), due to their habit of...

several common names. In southern Africa (and in much of the scientific community) it is known as the Karoo padloper, as it is the padloper species which...

tortoise Chersina angulata - angulate tortoise Homopus areolatus - common padloper Pelomedusa subrufa - marsh terrapin Acokanthera oppositifolia Afrocanthium...

leguan / leguaan (corruption of "likkewaan") meerkat (literally "lake cat") padloper (literally "path walker") platanna (from Dutch "plathander", meaning "flat...

these closely related species are commonly known in Europe and Africa as padlopers (originally meaning "path-walkers" in Afrikaans), due to their habit of...

occasionally up to 15 cm (6 in) long. The smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise (Homopus signatus) from South Africa. The males measure 6–8 cm...

a standard credit card (also called CR80) 9 cm – length of a speckled padloper, the smallest-known turtle The decimetre (SI symbol: dm) is a unit of length...

(Gopherus flavomarginatus) Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Nama padloper (Homopus solus) Travancore tortoise (Indotestudo travancorica) Home's hinge-back...

its closest relatives, according to phylogenetic studies, are the tiny "padloper" (Homopus) tortoise species, with which it shares its southern African...

endemic Homopus signatus (Gmelin, 1789), speckled dwarf tortoise, speckled padloper, syn. Testudo signata Walbaum, 1782, Pseudomopus signatus peersi Hewitt...