EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pelusios sinuatus
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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 sinuatus (East African Serrated Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Smith 1838 : Plate 1
- Holotype
- RSM 1859.13.1684
- Type Locality
- "rivers to the north of 25° south latitude" [South Africa]; restricted by Broadley (1981b:675) to "the Crocodile/Marico confluence, N. Transvaal" [Republic of South Africa]
- Original name
- Sternothaerus sinuatus
- Common Name
- East African Serrated Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern and southeastern Africa from southern Somalia, southern Ethiopia, and Kenya to Botswana and northeastern Rep. South Africa
- Comments
- Reviewed by Broadley (1981b), Bour (1983), and Boycott and Bourquin (1988).
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