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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 314 |
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Type
Locality |
"Patria ignota" [= locality unknown]; restricted to "Afrique occidentale" by Bour (1978:148). |
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Holotype |
Not designated |
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Original name |
Emys castanea |
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Common
name |
West African Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Senegal to northwestern Angola; Cape Verde Islands and Sao Tome Islands; introduced to Guadalupe, Lesser Antilles (Schwartz and Thomas, 1975, as Pelusios subniger). |
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Comments |
See Comments under Pelusios castanoides and P. chapini. Includes Sternotherus derbianus Gray (1844) according to Laurent (1965), Bour (1978, 1983). See also reviews by Broadley (1981b) and Bour (1983). |
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