Educational resources on Flat-Shelled Spider Tortoise

Flat-Shelled Spider Tortoise or Pyxis planicauda is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1cd, B1+2bcd . IUCN Profile of the Flat-Shelled Spider Tortoise

Academic web links for the Flat-Shelled Spider Tortoise.

ADW: Pyxis_planicauda.jpg
What's in a Scientific Name? Authority Lists: Where We Get Our Names Name ... Pyxis planicauda (flat-shelled spider tortoise)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/james_harding/Pyxis_planicauda.jpg/view.html

EMYSystem Species Page: Pyxis planicauda (Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise ...
Original Description: Grandidier 1867: 233: Type Locality "Mouroundava" [western Madagascar]; restricted by Bour (1981:165) to "Morondava, province de Tuléar
emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Pyxisplanicauda/Pyxisplanicauda.html

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pyxis planicauda (Flat-shelled ...
Original Description Grandidier 1867: 233 Holotype MNHN 9373 Type Locality "Mouroundava" [western Madagascar]; restricted by Bour (1981:165) to "Morondava, province de Tuléar
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Pyxisplanicauda/Pyxisplanicauda.html

ADW: Pyxis planicauda: Classification
Pyxis planicauda (flat-shelled spider tortoise) ... What do these icons mean? The icons tell you what features are available for
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Pyxis_planicauda.html

ADW: Pyxis planicauda: Pictures
Pyxis planicauda (flat-shelled spider tortoise)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Pyxis_planicauda.html

EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Pyxis (Spider Tortoises)
...species list P. arachnoides (Common Spider Tortoise) P. planicauda (Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise) Original Description Bell 1827: 395 Common Name Spider Tortoises
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/genus/Pyxis/Pyxis.html

ADW: Pyxis: Classification
What do these icons mean? The icons tell you what features are available for ... Pyxis planicauda (flat-shelled spider tortoise)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pyxis.html

ADW: Pyxis: Pictures
...common spider tortoise Pyxis arachnoides: flat-shelled spider tortoise Pyxis planicauda
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Pyxis.html

ADW: Harding, James
...flat-shelled spider tortoise Pyxis planicauda: crawfish frog Rana areolata : plains leopard frog Rana blairi: Cascades frog Rana cascadae: North American bullfrog
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/james_harding/index_0150.html

ADW: Testudinidae: Pictures
...impressed tortoise Manouria impressa: big-headed turtle Platysternon megacephalum: common spider tortoise Pyxis arachnoides : flat-shelled spider tortoise
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Testudinidae_0045.html