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Original
Description |
Gray 1831b : 20 |
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Type
Locality |
"apud Penang" [Malaya, Malaysia] |
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Holotype |
Presumably in the BMNH since it is illustrated in Gray 1831 "1830-35": Plate 77 as EMYS SPINOSAE, but not identified as such in Boulenger 1889:138; however, Bourret (1941:159) suggested that the type is specimen "c" in Boulenger 1889:138; that is, BMNH 62.8.28.1. |
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Original name |
Emys spinosa |
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Common
name |
Spiny Turtle |
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Distribution |
Thailand and possibly southern Burma (Myanmar) south through Malaysia to Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesia), including numerous small Indonesian islands |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Geoemyda spinosa), Bourret (1941; as Geoemyda spinosa), and Taylor (1970). |
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