EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Emys orbicularis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Emydinae (Emydine Turtles)
genus...............Emys (European Pond Turtles)
species..............Emys orbicularis (European Pond Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Linnaeus 1758 : 198
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- "meridionalibus Europae" [= Southern Europe]
- Original name
- Testudo orbicularis
- Common Name
- European Pond Turtle
- Distribution
- Northwestern Africa (Tunisia to Morocco), Europe (Portugal to Greece to Lithuania) to northern Iran and the Aral Sea region in the USSR; records from northwestern Europe may be introductions
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957), Street (1979), and Fritz (1989).
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