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Original
Description |
Daudin 1802 : 309 |
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Type
Locality |
"Amboine" [= Amboina Island, Indonesia] |
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Holotype |
MNHN, according to Bourret 1941:149; although Bour in Rummler and Fritz 1991:36 reported that the type was lost at sea before Daudin ever saw it. |
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Original name |
Testudo amboinensis |
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Common
name |
Southeast Asian Box Turtle |
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Distribution |
Eastern India and Bangladesh through Burma to Thailand and Vietnam to the Malay Peninsula and throughout the Malayan archipelago east to Timor, Sulawesi, Ceram, and Amboina (Indonesia) and the Philippines |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970), Das (1991; in India), and Rummler and Fritz (1991). |
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