EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pelusios subniger
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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 subniger (East African Black Mud Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Bonnaterre 1789 : 30
- Holotype
- MNHN 8366
- Type Locality
- Not stated; designated as "Tamatave [= Toamasina], est de Madagascar"
- Original name
- Testudo subnigra
- Common Name
- East African Black Mud Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern and southeastern Africa, Madagascar, and the Seychelles Islands; introduced to Gloriosa Island, Mauritius Island (possibly now extirpated), and Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago (Bour, 1984d)
- Comments
- Originally described by Lacepède (1788:15), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN Opinion 1463 (1987). Reviewed by Broadley (1981b), Bour (1983), and Boycott and Bourquin (1988).
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