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Original
Description |
Schneider 1783 : 348 |
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Type
Locality |
"Unknown, said to be England" (in error) according to Stejneger and Barbour (1943:203); designated as "Lancaster [Lancaster Co.], Pennsylvania" [USA] by Mittleman (1945:171); designated as "vicinity of New York City" [New York, USA] by Schmidt (1953:99; in error, according to Smith and Smith, 1979:424) |
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Holotype |
Not stated; possibly in the MZUS according to R. Bour pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Testudo picta |
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Common
name |
Painted Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southern Canada, the USA (except for the southeast and southwest), and northern Chihuahua, Mexico; introduced in California, USA (Stebbins, 1985) |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Ernst (1971). |
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