EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pseudemys floridana
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Pseudemys (Cooter Turtles)
species..............Pseudemys floridana (Common Cooter)
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- Original Description
- LeConte 1829 : 100
- Syntypes
- (number uncertain) A specimen in the MNHN is apparently a syntype according to R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "St. John's river of East Florida" [USA]
- Original name
- Testudo floridana
- Common Name
- Common Cooter
- Distribution
- Coastal plain from Louisiana to Florida to North Carolina, USA
- Comments
- Subgenus Pseudemys. See Comment under Pseudemys concinna.
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