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Original
Description |
Bonnaterre 1789 : 30 |
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Type
Locality |
Not stated; designated as "Tamatave [= Toamasina], est de Madagascar" |
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Holotype |
MNHN 8366 |
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Original name |
Testudo subnigra |
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Common
name |
East African Black Mud Turtle |
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Distribution |
Eastern and southeastern Africa, Madagascar, and the Seychelles Islands; introduced to Gloriosa Island, Mauritius Island (possibly now extirpated), and Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago (Bour, 1984d) |
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Comments |
Originally described by Lacepède (1788:15), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN Opinion 1463 (1987). Reviewed by Broadley (1981b), Bour (1983), and Boycott and Bourquin (1988). |
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