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Original
Description |
LeConte 1829 : 101 |
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Type
Locality |
"in rivers from New-Jersey to Virginia, . . . in such as are rocky; in the Delaware, near Trenton" [USA]; stated as "Delaware River, near Trenton, New Jersey" [USA] by Schmidt (1953:103) |
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Holotype |
A specimen in the MNHN is being designated as lectotype by R. Bour pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Testudo rubriventris |
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Common
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American Red-bellied Turtle |
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Distribution |
Eastern Massachusetts and central New Jersey to northeastern North Carolina, USA |
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Comments |
Subgenus Ptychemys. See Comments under Pseudemys nelsoni and P. alabamensis. The Massachussetts population, named P. r. bangsi by Babcock (1937:293), is not taxonomically distinguishable according to Iverson and Graham (1990). Reviewed by Graham (1991). |
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