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determine du Chicapa, a peu pres dans la meme region que le precedent” (which represent the 
locality cited above; “affl. de la rive gauche du Chicapa, a TOuest de Dundo, Posto de Lovua “) 
(Laurent 1964a:24); “Cambulo, 70 km from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, Kin¬ 
shasa” [-7.73333, 21.26667] (Luiselli and Diagne 2014:084.6; Mifsud and Stapleton 2014:31). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: Bour (in Iverson 1992) stated that the syntype figured 
by Shaw might have been in the Leverian Museum. This collection was sold at auction in 1806 
and dispersed to a number of private and state-owned museums, but this specimen has not been 
located. 
Genus Stigmochelys Gray, 1873 
Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828) Leopard Tortoise 
Testudo pardalis Bell 1828:420, Suppl. PI. 25. Type: Not loeated, originally in the Bell Colleetion, part of 
whieh was later donated to the OUM (King and Burke 1989). Type loeality: “in Promont. Bonae Spei” 
(eollector unknown), [= Cape of Good Hope], Western Cape Province, South Africa. 
Testudo pardalis-. Bocage (1867b:217, 1870:68, 1895a:3), Monard (1937b:147), Hellmich (1957a:32). 
Testudo pardalis pardalis'. Mertens (1937a:5). 
Geoehelone pardalis babeoeki: Loveridge and Williams (1957:235). 
Geoehelonepardalis'. Iverson (1986:143, 1992:252), Broadley (1989b:43), Le et al. (2006:524). 
Stigmoehelyspardalis: Fritz and Bininda-Emonds (2007:305), Fritz and Havas (2007:297), Branch (2008:66), 
Fritz et al. (2010:348), Vetter (2011:91), Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (2014:406), Ceriaco et al. 
(2016a:54), Conradie et al. (2016:27). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Least Concern. 
Global distribution: This species is distributed from southern Sudan and Ethiopia southwards 
through eastern Africa to South Africa, and northwestward to Namibia and southern Angola. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 118): This 
species occurs in southwestern Angola and 
eastwards along the Namibian border. 
Benguela: “Benguella” [-12.58333, 13.41667] 
(Bocage 1867b:217, 1895a:3; Hellmich 
1957a:32, Loveridge and Williams 1957:251); 
“Cubal” [-13.03333, 14.25000] (Mertens 
1937a:5; Loveridge and Williams 1957:251). 
Namibe: “Capangombe” [-15.10000, 
13.15000] (Loveridge and Williams 1957:251; 
Ceriaco et al. 2016a:54); “Mossamedes” 
[-15.20000, 12.15000] (Bocage 1895a:3; 
Ceriaco et al. 2016a:54). Cunene: “Mupa” 
[-16.18333, 15.75000] (Monard 1937b:147; 
Loveridge and Williams 1957:251); “Forte 
Rogadas” [-16.73333, 14.98333] (Monard 
1937b: 147; Loveridge and Williams 
1957:251); “Dombodola” [-17.33333, Map 118. Distribution of Stigmochelys pardalis in 
14.83333] (Monard 1937b: 147; Loveridge and 
Williams 1957:251). Cuando Cubango: “Cuando basin (44a)” [-17.57333, 23.26000] (Conradie 
et al. 2016:9-10, 27). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: Bell’s (1828) description notes that the type was in his 
own collection at the time. The majority of the collection was purchased by F. W. Hope, who donat- 
