EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Rhinoclemmys nasuta
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species..............Rhinoclemmys nasuta (Large-nosed Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Boulenger 1902 : 53
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.5.54; BMNH 1947.3.5.55; BMNH 1947.3.5.56; BMNH 1947.3.5.57
- Type Locality
- "Bulún [= San Francisco de Pulun], 160 feet, and from the Rio Durango, 350 feet" [Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador]; Carr and Almendariz (1990:91-93) discuss the precise location of the type locality.
- Original name
- Nicoria nasuta
- Common Name
- Large-nosed Wood Turtle
- Distribution
- Western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador
- Comments
- Reviewed by Ernst (1980d) and Carr and Almendariz (1990).
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