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Original
Description |
Hewitt 1927 : 375 |
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Type
Locality |
"Mpika district", northeastern Rhodesia [= Zambia] |
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Holotype |
AMG 5432 |
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Original name |
Pelusios nigricans rhodesianus |
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Common
name |
Variable Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Uganda to eastern Zaire, Angola and northeastern Natal, Republic of South Africa |
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Comments |
Considered a subspecies of P. castaneus by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:116); elevated to species status by Raw (1978) and Broadley (1981b). Reviewed by Bour (1983) and Boycott and Bourquin (1988). |
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