EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Rhinoclemmys melanosterna
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species..............Rhinoclemmys melanosterna (Colombian Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1861 : 205
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.8; BMNH 1947.3.5.51
- Type Locality
- "Cherunha ... Gulf of Darien", although the types are listed as coming from "River Buonaventura" and "Chirambira, Gulf of Darien" by Boulenger (1889:124); restricted to "Chirambira near Buenaventura" by Mertens and Wermuth (1955:352) and to "Punta Chirambirá delta del rio San Juan, Chocó, Colombia" by Medem (1958:21)
- Original name
- Geoclemmys melanosterna
- Common Name
- Colombian Wood Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia south to extreme northwestern Ecuador
- Comments
- Elevated to species status from the synonymy of R. punctularia (e.g., Ernst 1978, 1981c) by Pritchard (1979), Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), Paolillo (1985), and Carr and Bickham (1986).
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