EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Deirochelys
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Deirochelys (Chicken Turtles)
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D. reticularia (Chicken Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Agassiz 1857 : 441
- Common Name
- Chicken Turtles
- Distribution
- As for the single species
- Comments
- Considered to be closely related to Emydoidea by McDowell (1964) and Dryden (1985) based on skeletal morphology, but not by Frair (1982c) or Seidel and Adkins (1989) based on serology and myoglobins, respectively, or by Bramble (1974) or Gaffney and Meylan (1988) based on morphology.
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