EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Mauremys caspica
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Mauremys (Stripe-necked Turtles)
species..............Mauremys caspica (Caspian Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gmelin 1774 : 59
- Holotype
- Not located, although pictured in the original description.
- Type Locality
- Pusahat Creek [= Pirsagat] near Schamachie, Transcaucasia [USSR]
- Original name
- Testuda caspica
- Common Name
- Caspian Turtle
- Distribution
- Yugoslavia and Bulgaria south and east through Greece (including Crete), Cyprus, and Turkey to Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and extreme southern USSR
- Comments
- Reviewed by Busack and Ernst (1980).
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