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Original
Description |
Grandidier 1867 : 232 |
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Type
Locality |
"Mouroundava Tsidsibouque flumina in occidentali insulae Madagascar littore" [= Morondava and Tsidsibou rivers on the western coast of Madagascar] |
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Holotype |
MNHN 9544 |
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Original name |
Dumerilia madagascariensis |
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Common
name |
Madagascan Big-headed Turtle |
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Distribution |
Western and northern Madagascar from the Mangoky River in the southwest to the Sambirano basin in the north |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Tronc and Vuillemin (1974) and Groombridge (1982). The original genus (Dumerilia Grandidier, 1867) is preoccupied and therefore unavailable (Wermuth and Mertens, 1977:119). |
