EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Rhinoclemmys diademata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species..............Rhinoclemmys diademata (Maracaibo Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Mertens 1954a : 4
- Holotype
- SMF 48141
- Type Locality
- "Maracay, Venezuela"; possibly a lapsus for "Maracaibo" according to Pritchard and Trebbau (1984:172)
- Original name
- Geoemyda punctularia diademata
- Common Name
- Maracaibo Wood Turtle
- Distribution
- Maracaibo basin, Venezuela
- Comments
- Reviewed and elevated to species status by Pritchard and Trebbau (1984; see also Pritchard, 1979), although Paolillo (1985; among others) considered it a subspecies of punctularia.
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