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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelydridae (Snapping Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Chelydra (Common Snapping Turtles)
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C. serpentina (Common Snapping Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 292
- Common Name
- Common Snapping Turtles
- Distribution
- Southern Canada through the eastern USA, Mexico, and Central America to Ecuador
- Comments
- Reviewed by Medem (1977), Smith and Smith (1979), and Ernst et al. (1988).
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