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Homopus fenestratus
Taxonomy
Homopus fenestratus was named by Cooper and Broadley (1990). Its type specimen is AM-926, a shell (steikern), and it is a mold. Its type locality is ? Carlisle Bridge, which is in a Neogene terrestrial limestone in South Africa.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1990 | Homopus fenestratus Cooper and Broadley |
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†Homopus fenestratus Cooper and Broadley 1990
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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M. R. Cooper and D. G. Broadley 1990 | A species of Homopus possessing a subrhomboidal median fontanelle 10 the
plastron at relatively large size, but with no fenestration of the carapace. |