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Original
Description |
Stejneger 1925 : 463 |
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Type
Locality |
"Fellsmere, Indian River County,Florida," [USA] |
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Holotype |
MCZ 39888 |
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Original name |
Pseudemys nelsoni |
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Common
name |
Florida Red-bellied Turtle |
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Distribution |
Florida, and SE Georgia [USA]; the identification of populations in northwest Florida is problematical (see Jackson, 1978a; and Iverson and Etchberger, 1989) |
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Comments |
Subgenus Ptychemys. Sometimes referred to as Pseudemys rubriventris nelsoni (e.g., Wermuth and Mertens, 1977; Fritz, 1989a; Obst, 1983b). Reviewed by Jackson (1978). |
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