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Original
Description |
Gray 1861 : 205 |
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Type
Locality |
"Cherunha ... Gulf of Darien", although the types are listed as coming from "River Buonaventura" and "Chirambira, Gulf of Darien" by Boulenger (1889:124); restricted to "Chirambira near Buenaventura" by Mertens and Wermuth (1955:352) and to "Punta Chirambirá delta del rio San Juan, Chocó, Colombia" by Medem (1958:21) |
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Syntypes |
(2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.8; BMNH 1947.3.5.51 |
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Original name |
Geoclemmys melanosterna |
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Common
name |
Colombian Wood Turtle |
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Distribution |
Eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia south to extreme northwestern Ecuador |
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Comments |
Elevated to species status from the synonymy of R. punctularia (e.g., Ernst 1978, 1981c) by Pritchard (1979), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), Paolillo (1985), and Carr and Bickham (1986). |
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