Spider Tortoise

Spider Tortoise

Taxobox
name = Spider Tortoise



status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
familia = Testudinidae
genus = "Pyxis"
species = "P. arachnoides"
binomial = "Pyxis arachnoides"
binomial_authority = Bell, 1827
synonyms =

The Spider Tortoise ("Pyxis arachnoides") is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family.It is endemic to Madagascar.

Source

* Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19035/all Pyxis arachnoides] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.


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