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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 308 |
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Type
Locality |
"Nigritia"; restricted to "Cap Vert" by Duméril and Bibron (1835:394) and to "Cape Verde, Senegal" by Loveridge (1941:483) |
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Holotype |
MNHN 7972 |
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Original name |
Emys adansonii |
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Common
name |
Adanson's Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Central Africa from Senegal to Sudan |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Bour (1983). Kenyan (Lake Turkana) populations (Wood, 1984), previously included in this species, have been described as Pelusios broadleyi (Bour, 1986a). |
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