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Original
Description |
Agassiz 1857 : 430 |
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Type
Locality |
"Texas, near San Antonio; ... lower Rio Grande; ... Red River, Arkansas; ... Camp Yuma; ... Gila River" [USA]; incorrectly restricted by Smith and Taylor (1950:24) to "Waco [McLennan Co.], Texas" [USA] according to Maslin (1959:22); restricted to "Rio Blanco, near San Antonio [Bexar Co.], Texas" [USA] by Iverson (1978b:478) |
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Syntypes |
(5 specimens) USNM 50; USNM 131823 (formerly 7867); USNM 7892; MCZ 1918; MCZ 1919; USNM 50 designated lectotype by Iverson 1978b:478. |
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Original name |
Platythyra flavescens |
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Common
name |
Yellow Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southern Nebraska to southern Arizona, USA and Sonora, Durango, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, Mexico; disjunct populations in western Illinois, eastern Iowa, northeastern and southwestern Missouri and the Nebraska Sandhills, USA |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Seidel (1978), Iverson (1979a; 1989c, arizonense only), Smith and Smith (1979), Houseal et al. (1982), and Berry and Berry (1984). A fourth subspecies, K. f. spooneri Smith (1951:195), has recently been synonymized with the nominate subspecies (e.g., see Berry and Berry, 1984). |
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