EMYSystem Genus Page: Pyxidea
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OrderOrder Testudines (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
FamilyFamily Geoemydidae ()
SubfamilySubfamily no_subfamily ()
GenusGenus Pyxidea (Keeled Box Turtles)
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P. mouhotii
 
Original Description Gray 1863a : 175
Common name Keeled Box Turtles
Distribution As for the single species
Comments Tribe Batagurini. Placed in the synonymy of Geoemyda by McDowell (1964:269-270) but considered a monotypic genus by nearly all subsequent authors (e.g., Pritchard and Trebbau, 1984).
 
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