EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Rhinoclemmys
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species
species list
R. annulata (Brown Wood Turtle)
R. areolata (Furrowed Wood Turtle)
R. diademata (Maracaibo Wood Turtle)
R. funerea (Black Wood Turtle)
R. melanosterna (Colombian Wood Turtle)
R. nasuta (Large-nosed Wood Turtle)
R. pulcherrima (Painted Wood Turtle)
R. punctularia (Spot-legged Turtle)
R. rubida (Mexican Spotted Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Fitzinger 1835 : 115
- Common Name
- Neotropical Wood Turtles
- Distribution
- Southern Sonora and southern Veracruz (Mexico) to northern Ecuador and northern Brazil; Trinidad
- Comments
- Tribe Geoemydini. The nomenclatural history of this genus is complex. See Smith and Smith (1979) and Smith et al. (1980) for discussion. Some recent literature used the synonyms Callopsis or Rhinoclemys. Reviewed by Ernst (1978, as Callopsis; 1981a) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984; in part).
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