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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 298 |
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Type
Locality |
Not stated; restricted to "Südspanien" [= southern Spain] by Mertens and Müller (1928:22) |
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Holotype |
Not stated; MNHN according to Loveridge and Williams 1957:195; MNHN 7936 according to R. Bour pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Emys leprosa |
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Common
name |
Mediterranean Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southwestern Europe (France, Spain, and Portugal) and northwestern Africa (at least Mauritania and Morocco to northern Niger and western Libya) |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Loveridge and Williams (1957; as Clemmys caspica leprosa) and Busack and Ernst (1980). |
