EMYSystem Text Only Family Page: Chelydridae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelydridae (Snapping Turtles)
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Chelydra
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 4
- Original name
- Chelydridae
- Common Name
- Snapping Turtles
- Distribution
- Southern Canada to Ecuador
- Comments
- Gaffney (1975) and Gaffney and Meylan (1988) included the Platysternidae within the Chelydridae; however, Whetstone (1978) argued for their separation. Frair (1982c) reported a great difference between chelydrid and platysternid electrophoretic patterns.
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