EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Pyxidea
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Pyxidea (Keeled Box Turtles)
species
species list
P. mouhotii (Keeled Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1863a : 175
- Common Name
- Keeled Box Turtles
- Distribution
- As for the single species
- Comments
- Tribe Batagurini. Placed in the synonymy of Geoemyda by McDowell (1964:269-270) but considered a monotypic genus by nearly all subsequent authors (e.g., Pritchard and Trebbau, 1984).
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