EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Terrapene carolina
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Emydinae (Emydine Turtles)
genus...............Terrapene (Box Turtles)
species..............Terrapene carolina (Common Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Linnaeus 1758 : 198
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- Carolina; restricted by Schmidt (1953:93) to vicinity of Charleston [Charleston Co.], South Carolina [USA]
- Original name
- Testudo carolina
- Common Name
- Common Box Turtle
- Distribution
- (Two maps) eastern USA; Nuevo Leon to Veracruz, Mexico; Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; only representative records are plotted for the continuous portion of the range in the SE USA
- Comments
- Includes Terrapene mexicana and Terrapene yucatana, according to Milstead (1967); although Ward (1980) suggests that the latter may deserve species status. Reviewed by Milstead (1969) and Ernst and McBreen (1991). Mexican subspecies reviewed by Smith and Smith (1979). In the Terrapene carolina group.
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