EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Mauremys leprosa
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Mauremys (Stripe-necked Turtles)
species..............Mauremys leprosa (Mediterranean Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 298
- Holotype
- Not stated; MNHN according to Loveridge and Williams 1957:195; MNHN 7936 according to R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- Not stated; restricted to "Südspanien" [= southern Spain] by Mertens and Müller (1928:22)
- Original name
- Emys leprosa
- Common Name
- Mediterranean Turtle
- Distribution
- Southwestern Europe (France, Spain, and Portugal) and northwestern Africa (at least Mauritania and Morocco to northern Niger and western Libya)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957; as Clemmys caspica leprosa) and Busack and Ernst (1980).
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