EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Clemmys marmorata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Emydinae (Emydine Turtles)
genus...............Clemmys (Pond Turtles)
species..............Clemmys marmorata (Pacific Pond Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Baird and Girard 1852 : 177
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens) USNM 7594; USNM 7595; USNM 7596; USNM 131830 (formerly 7593)
- Type Locality
- "Puget Sound" [Washington, USA]
- Original name
- Emys marmorata
- Common Name
- Pacific Pond Turtle
- Distribution
- Pacific coastal region of Washington, Oregon, and California, and extreme western Nevada (USA) to northern Baja California (Mexico); extirpated in southern British Columbia (Canada); introduced in Grant Co., Oregon, USA (Stebbins, 1985)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bury (1970) and Smith and Smith (1979).
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