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References

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• 6. Young, R.P., Toto Volahy, A., Bourou, R., Lewis, R., Durbin, J. and Fa, J.E. (2008) Estimating the population of the Endangered flat-tailed tortoise Pyxis planicauda in the deciduous, dry forest of western Madagascar: a monitoring baseline. Oryx, 42 (2): 252 - 258.
• Behler, J.L., Q.M.C. Bloxam, E. Rakotovao, and H.J.A.R. Randriamahazo. 1993. New localities for Pyxis planicauda in West-central Madagascar. Chelonian Conserv. Biol. J. IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freswater Turtle Specialist Group.
• Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
• Bour, R. 1979. Les tortues actuelles de Madagascar (République Malagache): liste systématique et description de deux sous-espèces nouvelles (Reptilia-Testudines). Bulletin de la Société Etude des Sciences Anjou, N.S. 10:141-154 [1978].
• Bour, R. 1981. Etude systematique du genre endemique malgache Pyxis Bell, 1827 (Reptilia, Chelonii). Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon. 50 (4-5): 132-144, 154-176.
• Bour, Roger. 2005. The type specimens of Testudo planicauda Grandidier, 1867 and Testudo morondavaensis Vuillemin, 1972. Emys 12 (4) :22-27.
• Caccone, Adalgisa; George Amato; Oliver C. Gratry; John Behler and Jeffrey R. Powell. 1999. A Molecular Phylogeny of Four Endangered Madagascar Tortoises Based on MtDNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12 (1): 1–9.
• Durell, L., B. Groombridge, S. Tonge, and Q. Bloxam. 1989. Acinixys planicauda, Madagscar flat-tailed tortoise, Kapidolo. In: Swingland, I.R. and M.W. Klemens (Eds.). The Conservation Biology of Tortoises. Occas. Pap. IUCN Species Survival Commission %:94-95.
• Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
• Gibson, R.C. & Buley, K.R. 2004. Biology, captive husbandry, and conservation of the Malagasy Flat-tailed Tortoise, Pyxis planicauda Grandidier, 1867. Herpetological Review 35 (2): 111-116.
• Glaw,F. & Vences,M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3).
• Grandidier,A. 1867. Liste des reptiles nouveaux découverts, en 1866, sur la côte sud-ouest de Madagascar. Revue et Magazine de Zoologie (Paris), Sér. 2, 19: 232-234.
• Hersche, H. & Liebel, K. 2003. Pyxis planicauda. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (3): 88-89.
• Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World
• Kuchling, G and Q. Bloxam. 1988. Field-data on the madagascan flat-tailed tortoise Pyxis (Acinixys) planicauda. Amphibia-Reptilia 9:175-180.
• Kuchling, G. 1989. Ökologie, Lebensweise und Überlebenschancen der Landschildkröten Madagaskars. Salamandra 25 (3/4): 169-190.
• Valverde, J. 2005. African Tortoises. Reptilia (GB) (43): 12-20.
• Valverde, J. 2005. Afrikanische Landschildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (6): 18-25.