EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Erymnochelys madagascariensis


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Podocnemidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Erymnochelys (Madagascan Big-headed Turtles)
species..............Erymnochelys madagascariensis (Madagascan Big-headed Turtle)
Original Description
Grandidier 1867 : 232
Holotype
MNHN 9544
Type Locality
"Mouroundava Tsidsibouque flumina in occidentali insulae Madagascar littore" [= Morondava and Tsidsibou rivers on the western coast of Madagascar]
Original name
Dumerilia madagascariensis
Common Name
Madagascan Big-headed Turtle
Distribution
Western and northern Madagascar from the Mangoky River in the southwest to the Sambirano basin in the north
Comments
Reviewed by Tronc and Vuillemin (1974) and Groombridge (1982). The original genus (Dumerilia Grandidier, 1867) is preoccupied and therefore unavailable (Wermuth and Mertens, 1977:119).
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