Kinixys belliana Gray, 1863

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Kinixys belliana Gray, 1863

Fig. 5 e

Records.

Catchi surroundings [- 13.7577, 13.2543, 1576 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001548, 001549 only tissue); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 820 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001550, only tissue).

Comments.

A wide-ranging species from eastern Africa to southwestern and central Angola. Historically, the taxonomic status of Kinixys populations in Angola has been uncertain (for further discussion see Marques et al. 2018), although according to the most recent sub-Saharan Africa chelonian phylogeny ( Fritz et al. 2022), the Angolan material should be assigned to Kinixys belliana . This species is frequently consumed a delicacy by the Mucubal tribe at the base of Serra da Neve (pers. obs.).

Figures

Figure 5. a Phrynobatrachus natalensis b Amietia angolensis c Tomopterna ahli d Tomopterna tuberculosa e Kinixys belliana f Stigmochelys pardalis g Afroedura praedicta h Hemidactylus benguellensis. Photographs by AT (a, b, d, h) and LMPC (c, e – g).