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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 298 |
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Type
Locality |
"Patria ignota" [= locality unknown]; designated as "Amérique méridionale" by Duméril and Bibron (1835:437), and "Guyanas et au nord-est de l'Amazonie" by Lescure and Fretey (1975:1318); restricted to "rivières Ouaqui et Inini, bassin du Maroni en amont de Maripasoula, Guyane francaise" by Bour and Pauler (1987:6). |
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Holotype |
MNHN 4140; photographed in Bour and Pauler 1987:21. |
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Original name |
Emys nasuta |
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Common
name |
Common Toad-headed Turtle |
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Distribution |
French Guiana and Surinam and possibly adjacent Brazil |
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Comments |
Subgenus Batrachemys. See Comments under Phrynops dahli and P. raniceps. Reviewed by Lescure and Fretey (1975), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), and Bour and Pauler (1987). |
