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Original
Description |
LeSueur 1827 : 263 |
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Type
Locality |
"Newharmony, sur le Wabash" [= New Harmony, Wabash River, Posey County, Indiana, USA] |
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Syntypes |
(5 specimens) MNHN 564; MNHN 4143; MNHN 7977; MNHN 8813 (formerly 787); MNHN 8814 (formerly 788); MNHN 8813 (formerly 787) designated lectotype by Webb 1962:534-536. |
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Original name |
Trionyx muticus |
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Common
name |
Smooth Softshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
Central USA from southcentral North Dakota, southwestern Wisconsin and western Pennsylvania to east Texas and extreme western Florida |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Webb (1962 and 1973c; as Trionyx muticus) and Meylan (1987). Subgenus Apalone according to Meylan (1987:92). |
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