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Original
Description |
Gray 1863a : 175 |
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Type
Locality |
"China...; Formosa"; data with types are "Tamsuy, North West Formosa" [= Taiwan] and "China?", respectively, (see also Boulenger, 1889:135); listed as "Tamsui, Formosa" by Stejneger (1907:503) and Fang (1934:170), and formally restricted to "Tamsuy, NW-Formosa" by Mertens and Wermuth (1955:347). |
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Syntypes |
(2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.5.50; BMNH 1947.3.5.68 |
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Original name |
Cistoclemmys flavomarginata |
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Common
name |
Yellow-margined Box Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southern China (PRC), Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands (Japan) |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Stejneger (1907; as Cyclemys flavomarginata), Smith (1931), Pope (1935; as Cyclemys flavomarginata), and McCord and Iverson (1991). The latter authors showed that the elevation of the Ryukyu Islands populations to the full species C. evelynae by Ernst and Lovich (1990:31) was not warranted; it is a weakly defined subspecies at best. |
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