EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Geoemyda spengleri
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Geoemyda (Leaf Turtles)
species..............Geoemyda spengleri (Black-breasted Leaf Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gmelin 1789 : 1043
- Holotype
- Not located, although figured in the original description.
- Type Locality
- Not given, but based on Walbaum's (1785:122-131) description of a turtle from "vermuthlich.....Ostindien".
- Original name
- Testudo spengleri
- Common Name
- Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
- Distribution
- Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands and southern China (PRC) to Indochina; early records for "Borneo" (Boettger, 1893) and "Sumatra" (de Rooij, 1915) are in error
- Comments
- Gmelin based his name on Walbaum's (1785) description, which lacked a Latin name (Pope, 1935; Zhao and Adler, 1992). Reviewed by Stejneger (1907), Smith (1931), Pope (1935), and Bourret (1941).
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