EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Malaclemys terrapin
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Malaclemys (Diamondback Terrapins)
species..............Malaclemys terrapin (Diamondback Terrapin)
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- Original Description
- Schoepff 1793 : 64
- Holotype
- Not designated
- Type Locality
- "Habitat in America septentrionali...in foris Philadelphiae, ... in aquis subdulcibus Insulae Longae capto, ..."; restricted by Schmidt (1953:95) to "coastal waters of Long Island" [New York, USA]
- Original name
- Testudo terrapin
- Common Name
- Diamondback Terrapin
- Distribution
- Along the coast of the USA from Massachusetts to southern Texas
- Comments
- References to this species in Mexico are erroneous, according to Smith and Smith (1979:524). Reviewed by Ernst and Bury (1982).
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