EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pseudemys rubriventris
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Pseudemys (Cooter Turtles)
species..............Pseudemys rubriventris (American Red-bellied Turtle)
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- Original Description
- LeConte 1829 : 101
- Holotype
- A specimen in the MNHN is being designated as lectotype by R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "in rivers from New-Jersey to Virginia, . . . in such as are rocky; in the Delaware, near Trenton" [USA]; stated as "Delaware River, near Trenton, New Jersey" [USA] by Schmidt (1953:103)
- Original name
- Testudo rubriventris
- Common Name
- American Red-bellied Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern Massachusetts and central New Jersey to northeastern North Carolina, USA
- Comments
- Subgenus Ptychemys. See Comments under Pseudemys nelsoni and P. alabamensis. The Massachussetts population, named P. r. bangsi by Babcock (1937:293), is not taxonomically distinguishable according to Iverson and Graham (1990). Reviewed by Graham (1991).
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