EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Mauremys mutica
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Mauremys (Stripe-necked Turtles)
species..............Mauremys mutica (Yellow Pond Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Cantor 1842 : 482
- Holotype
- BMNH 1947.3.5.34
- Type Locality
- "Chusan" [= Zhoushan Island, Zhejiang Province, China (PRC)]; not "Canton" as reported by most authors (clarified by Iverson and McCord, 1989:23)
- Original name
- Emys muticus
- Common Name
- Yellow Pond Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern China (PRC), including Taiwan and Hainan Islands, the western Ryukyu Islands and northern Indochina; introduced into Japan (Nakamura, 1934; Sengoku, 1979)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Clemmys mutica), Pope (1935; as Clemmys mutica), Bourret (1941; as Clemmys mutica), and Iverson and McCord (1989). See Comments under Annamemys annamensis and Chinemys nigricans.
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