Balkan pond turtle
The Balkan terrapin or western Caspian terrapin (Mauremys rivulata)[1] is a species of terrapin in the family Geoemydidae.[1] It is found in the Balkan Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece), a number of Mediterranean islands including Crete, Lesvos and Cyprus, and in the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey).[3]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Geoemydidae |
Genus: | Mauremys |
Species: | M. rivulata |
Binomial name | |
Mauremys rivulata (Valenciennes, 1833)[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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References
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- Rhodin 2010, p. 000.112
- Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment. 57 (2): 149–368. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- Mauremys rivulata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 March 2019.
Bibliography
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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