EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pelusios castaneus
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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 castaneus (West African Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 314
- Holotype
- Not designated
- Type Locality
- "Patria ignota" [= locality unknown]; restricted to "Afrique occidentale" by Bour (1978:148).
- Original name
- Emys castanea
- Common Name
- West African Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- Senegal to northwestern Angola; Cape Verde Islands and Sao Tome Islands; introduced to Guadalupe, Lesser Antilles (Schwartz and Thomas, 1975, as Pelusios subniger).
- Comments
- See Comments under Pelusios castanoides and P. chapini. Includes Sternotherus derbianus Gray (1844) according to Laurent (1965), Bour (1978, 1983). See also reviews by Broadley (1981b) and Bour (1983).
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