Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Turtles Testudinidae Africa Asia Europe Middle East Taxonomy of the genus Testudo Biodiversity of the family Testudinidae Bibliography of the genus Testudo (Palearctic Tortoises) (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Testudo in general Anonymous. 1969. Fewer tortoises in Britain. Nature (London) 223: 1302-1303. Anonymous. 1981. Villas, villagers and tortoises in Greece. Oryx 16(2): 176-178. Anonymous. 2004. [Testudo]. Manouria 7(22): 1-52. Anonymous. 2006. La maintenance exterieure des tortues terrestres mediterraneennes. Manouria 9(31): 13-17. Anonymous. 2006. L'alimentation des tortues terrestres meditaerranees. 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Density and sex-ratio of wild populations of three Testudo species in Italy. Herpetozoa 30(3-4): 203-208. Biaggini, M.; Romano, A.; Tizio, L. di; Corti, C. 2018. Density and sex-ratio of wild populations of three Testudo species in Italy. Herpetozoa 30(3-4): 203-208. Bidmon, H.J. 2006. Die Aufzucht und Ernährung Europäischer Landschildkröten - Grundlagen und Rezepte, Futtermittel und Zusatzstoffe. Schildkröten im Fokus (Sonderband) 2006: 117-136. Bidmon, H.J. 2011. Schildkrötenschutz am Südostrand Europas: ein Besuch zur Eröffnung der GEA Chelonia Foundation, Bulgarien. Schildkröten im Fokus 8(2): 3-21. Bour, R. 1988. Caracteres diagnostiques offerts par le crane des tortues terrestres du genre Testudo. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille 48: 13-19. Bour, R. 2006. Eurotestudo: pourquoi et comment. Cheloniens 4: 42-45. Bour, R.; Ohler, A.M. 2008. Chersine Merrem, 1820, and Chersina Gray, 1831: a nomenclatural survey. Zootaxa 1752: 66-68. 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Influence de l'hibernation sur le taux de mortalite des juveniles Testudo et Eurotestudo. Cheloniens 2: 40-42. Chatfield, J. 1982. Timothy tortoise of Selbourne. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 5: 31-32. Chkhikvadze, V.M. 1970. On the origin of the modern Palaearctic land tortoises. Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR 57: 245-247. Chkhikvadze, V.M. 2010. [Morphology, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of small tortoises of Palearctica and Africa]. (In Russian). pp. 233-245. In: Duisebayeva, T.N.; Zima, I.A. & Chirikova, M.A. (eds.). Gerpetologicheskie Issledovaniya v Kazakhstane i sopredelnykh stranakh [Herpetological researches in Kazakhstan and adjacent countries]. ASBK & SOPKI, Almaty. 255 pp. (In Russian). Chkhikvadze, V.M.; Brushko, Z.K.; Kubykin, R.A. 2009. [Short summary of systematic of Central Asian turtles (Testudinidae: Agrionemys) and mobile shell zones of this group of turtles]. (In Russian). Selevinia 2008: 108-112. Collins, P.W.P. 1980. 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