EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Mauremys
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Mauremys (Stripe-necked Turtles)
species
species list
M. annamensis (Annam Leaf Turtle)
M. caspica (Caspian Turtle)
M. iversoni (Fujian Pond Turtle)
M. japonica (Japanese Pond Turtle)
M. leprosa (Mediterranean Turtle)
M. mutica (Yellow Pond Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1869b : 500
- Common Name
- Stripe-necked Turtles
- Distribution
- Northwestern Africa, and southern Europe, to Japan
- Comments
- Tribe Batagurini. An undescribed species from Burma has recently been imported to the USA through the pet trade (W. P. McCord, pers. comm.).
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