Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

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Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Pyxis
Species: P. planicauda
Binomial name
Pyxis planicauda
(Grandidier, 1867)

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.

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