Kleinmann's tortoise
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Kleinmann's tortoise, also called commonly the Egyptian tortoise, Leith's tortoise, and the Negev tortoise, is a critically endangered species of cryptodire turtle in the family Testudinidae. The spec
Egyptian tortoise
Belly of the Egyptian tortoise
Characteristic specimens of the Egyptian tortoise (left) and Negev tortoise (right), dorsal view
Ventral view: Differences are slight and unreliable (see above)
Negev
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The Negev or Naqab is the name for a desert and semidesert area in southern Israel. Today, it forms the bulk of the Southern District of Israel, whose largest city and administrative capital is Beersh
Kleinmann's tortoise
…due to (rather unlikely) dispersal across the Mediterranean, or the supposed "clade" is invalid and the similarity due to convergent evolution. The Negev subpopulation had been separated as a distinct species, "Negev tortoise" (Testudo werneri), as it did not appear to have distinct or strongly reduced…
The Zin Valley and Nahal Havarim, near Midreshet Ben-Gurion
Nahal Paran
Nahal Zin
Of the three Acacia species growing in high plateau of the Negev, Acacia pachyceras is the most cold-resistant.