EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pelusios adansonii
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Pelomedusidae (Afro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Pelusios (African Hinged Terrapins)
species..............Pelusios adansonii (Adanson's Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 308
- Holotype
- MNHN 7972
- Type Locality
- "Nigritia"; restricted to "Cap Vert" by Duméril and Bibron (1835:394) and to "Cape Verde, Senegal" by Loveridge (1941:483)
- Original name
- Emys adansonii
- Common Name
- Adanson's Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- Central Africa from Senegal to Sudan
- Comments
- Reviewed by Bour (1983). Kenyan (Lake Turkana) populations (Wood, 1984), previously included in this species, have been described as Pelusios broadleyi (Bour, 1986a).
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