EMYSystem Species Page: Pelusios seychellensis (Seychelles Mud Turtle)

EMYSystem Species Page: Pelusios seychellensis

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Order Testudines (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)

Family Pelomedusidae (Afro-American Side-necked Turtles)

Subfamily no_subfamily ()

Genus Pelusios (African Hinged Terrapins)

Species Pelusios seychellensis (Seychelles Mud Turtle)

range of species Pelusios seychellensis

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	Original Description	Siebenrock 1906a : 38
	Type Locality	"Seychelles"; restricted to "Seychelles; Mahé" by Siebenrock (1909b:362); erroneously listed as "Gloriosa Island, Seychelles" by Loveridge (1941:493), Laurent (1965:29), and Iverson (1986b:248), as "Gloriosa Island, Seychellen" by Wermuth and Mertens (1961:291) and as "Insel Gloriosa, Seychelles" by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:117).
	Syntypes	(3 specimens) ZMH R00982; ZMH R00983; NMW 13247 (listed as type by Broadley 1981b:655 and as lectotype by Bour 1983:353).
	Original name	Sternothaerus nigricans seychellensis
	Common name	Seychelles Mud Turtle
	Distribution	Seychelles Islands; known only from the syntypes
	Comments	Reviewed by Bour (1983). Considered synonymous with P. castaneus by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:117).

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