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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Rhinoclemmys (Neotropical Wood Turtles)
species..............Rhinoclemmys rubida (Mexican Spotted Wood Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Cope 1869 : 148
- Syntypes
- (9 specimens) USNM 45612; USNM 45613; USNM 45614; ANSP 285; ANSP 337; ANSP 338; ANSP 339; ANSP 340; ANSP 341, although Cope only noted 4 specimens, numbered 264-67, in the description.
- Type Locality
- "Tuchitán [= Juchitán], Tehuantépec, [Oaxaca] Mexico"
- Original name
- Chelopus rubidus
- Common Name
- Mexican Spotted Wood Turtle
- Distribution
- Mexico: southwestern Jalisco through Colima to southwestern Michoacán (Mexico) and east in the Balsas basin to Mexico (state); central Oaxaca to Chiapas (Mexico)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith and Smith (1979), Ernst (1981d), and Groombridge (1982).
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