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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cuora (Asian Box Turtles)
species..............Cuora amboinensis (Southeast Asian Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Daudin 1802 : 309
- Holotype
- MNHN, according to Bourret 1941:149; although Bour in Rummler and Fritz 1991:36 reported that the type was lost at sea before Daudin ever saw it.
- Type Locality
- "Amboine" [= Amboina Island, Indonesia]
- Original name
- Testudo amboinensis
- Common Name
- Southeast Asian Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern India and Bangladesh through Burma to Thailand and Vietnam to the Malay Peninsula and throughout the Malayan archipelago east to Timor, Sulawesi, Ceram, and Amboina (Indonesia) and the Philippines
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970), Das (1991; in India), and Rummler and Fritz (1991).
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