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)
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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