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)
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- 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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