EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Rhinoclemmys funerea
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species..............Rhinoclemmys funerea (Black Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Cope 1875b : 154
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens) USNM 45000; USNM 45001; USNM 46134; USNM 46135
- Type Locality
- "Limon" [= Puerto Limón, Costa Rica]
- Original name
- Chelopus funereus
- Common Name
- Black Wood Turtle
- Distribution
- From the Coco River on the Honduras-Nicaragua border to central Panama along the Caribbean versant
- Comments
- Reviewed by Ernst (1980c).
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