EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cistoclemmys galbinifrons
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cistoclemmys (Indo-Chinese Box Turtles)
species..............Cistoclemmys galbinifrons (Indochinese Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Bourret 1939 : 11
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens): Originally NUH T-54 (now MNHN 1948-36),; NUH T- 55; NUH T-59 (now in the MHNT); NUH T-60 (now MNHN 1948-37); NUH T-54 and NUH T-59 illustrated in the original description.
- Type Locality
- "Tam-Dao .... , Bach-Ma (Annam) ...., Linh-Cam (Ha-Tinh, Annam)", Vietnam
- Original name
- Cistoclemmys galbinifrons
- Common Name
- Indochinese Box Turtle
- Distribution
- From Tonkin and Annam in Vietnam to southern Guangxi Prov. and Hainan Island, China (PRC)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bourret (1941), Buskirk (1988), Weiss (1989), and McCord and Iverson (1991).
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