EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Siebenrockiella crassicollis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Siebenrockiella (Black Marsh Turtles)
species..............Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Black Marsh Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 21
- Holotype
- BMNH 1947.3.5.36; although OUM has a shell (#8480) that is labelled as a syntype, and the legend in Gray 1831 "1830-35":Plate 76) suggests a specimen from the T. Bell collection, which is in the OUM.
- Type Locality
- "Sumatra" [Indonesia]
- Original name
- Emys crassicollis
- Common Name
- Black Marsh Turtle
- Distribution
- Lower Burma, Thailand and southern Vietnam south through the Malay Peninsula (Malaysia) to Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), and Taylor (1970).
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