EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Terrapene coahuila
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Emydinae (Emydine Turtles)
genus...............Terrapene (Box Turtles)
species..............Terrapene coahuila (Coahuilan Box Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schmidt and Owens 1944 : 101
- Holotype
- FMNH 41234 (erroneously cited as FMNH 55656 by Milstead 1969:81)
- Type Locality
- "Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila" [Mexico]
- Original name
- Terrapene coahuila
- Common Name
- Coahuilan Box Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley in Coahuila, Mexico
- Comments
- Reviewed by Brown (1974), Smith and Smith (1979), Groombridge (1982), and Iverson (1982a). In the Terrapene carolina group.
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