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Original
Description |
Latreille 1801 : 122 |
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Type
Locality |
"les eaux dormantes de la Caroline"; restricted by Schmidt (1953:87) to "vicinity of Charleston [Charlestown Co.], South Carolina" [USA] |
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Holotype |
Not designated; presumed lost; illustrated in the original description. |
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Original name |
Testudo odorata |
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Common
name |
Common Musk Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southeastern Canada (Ontario and southern Quebec) and the eastern USA (Maine to southern Wisconsin to Texas to Florida); a single record from Chihuahua, Mexico (see Smith and Smith, 1979) is considered invalid; only representative records are plotted for the continuous portion of the range in the southeastern USA |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Reynolds and Seidel (1982, 1983). |
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