Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

Taxobox
name = Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

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status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
familia = Testudinidae
genus = "Pyxis"
species = "P. planicauda"
binomial = "Pyxis planicauda"
binomial_authority = (Grandidier, 1867)
synonyms = The Flat-backed Spider Tortoise, Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise, or Madagascar Flat-shelled Tortoise ("Pyxis planicauda") is a species of turtle in the Testudinidae family.It is endemic to Madagascar.

ource

* Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19036/all Pyxis planicauda] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.