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Original
Description |
Gmelin 1789 : 1043 |
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Type
Locality |
Not given, but based on Walbaum's (1785:122-131) description of a turtle from "vermuthlich.....Ostindien". |
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Holotype |
Not located, although figured in the original description. |
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Original name |
Testudo spengleri |
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Common
name |
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle |
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Distribution |
Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands and southern China (PRC) to Indochina; early records for "Borneo" (Boettger, 1893) and "Sumatra" (de Rooij, 1915) are in error |
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Comments |
Gmelin based his name on Walbaum's (1785) description, which lacked a Latin name (Pope, 1935; Zhao and Adler, 1992). Reviewed by Stejneger (1907), Smith (1931), Pope (1935), and Bourret (1941). |
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