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Original
Description |
Linnaeus 1758 : 199 |
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Type
Locality |
"Calidis regionibus;" restricted by Smith and Taylor (1950b:21; see also 1950a:358) to "New Orleans, La." [Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA]; restricted by Schmidt (1953:86) to "vicinity of New York City" [New York, USA] |
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Holotype |
Originally in NRM; lost according to Andersson 1900:4, 23; however, NRM GA 49 is apparently the holotype according to Wallin pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Testudo serpentina |
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Common
name |
Common Snapping Turtle |
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Distribution |
(Three maps) From southern Canada across the eastern USA, and southeastern Mexico to Colombia and Ecuador; introduced in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California, USA (Stebbins, 1985); only representative records are plotted for the southeastern, continuous portion of the range in the USA |
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Comments |
The subspecies are accorded species status by some; however, Feuer (1971) demonstrated intergradation between Chelydra serpentina serpentina and Chelydra serpentina osceola. Reviewed by Medem (1977), Smith and Smith (1979), and Gibbons et al. (1988). |
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