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Original
Description |
Schlegel and Müller 1844 : 34 |
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Type
Locality |
"Sumatra, te midden der hoage bergbosschen, aan de Zuidzijde van den Goenong Singalong, in derok groote vallei, door welke de river Auch, uit de zoogenaamde bovenlanden naar de westelijke zeekurt afstroomt." |
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Syntypes |
(5 specimens) RMNH 3808; RMNH 6005; RMNH 6030; RMNH 17967; MNHN 9422; RMNH 3808 designated lectotype by Hoogmoed and Crumly 1984:251. |
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Original name |
Testudo emys |
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Common
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Asian Brown Tortoise |
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Distribution |
(next page) Eastern India to southern Vietnam and south to Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Testudo emys), Bourret (1941; as Testudo emys), Taylor (1970; as Testudo emys), Groombridge (1982; as Geochelone emys), Obst (1983a), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989), and Das (1991). Includes Testudo nutapundi Reimann (in Wirot, 1979), according to Obst (1983a), Hoogmoed and Crumly (1984), Bour (1984b:169), and Crumly (1988). |
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