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Southern Painted Turtle
Chrysemys dorsalis Agassiz, 1857
Also calledChrysémyde peinte du Sud (fra) · Rückenstreifen-Zierschildkröte (deu) · Rückenstreifenzierschildkröte (deu) · Südliche Zierschildkröte (deu) · Tortue peinte de l'est (fra) · Tortuga pintada del Sur (spa) · Zuidelijke sierschildpad (nld) · želva jižní (ces) · سلحفاة مزركشة جنوبية (ara) · เต่าเพนต์ใต้ (tha) · セスジニシキガメ (jpn) · ナンブニシキガメ (jpn)
First described in: Agassiz, & Louis. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. vol. 1.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Syntypes (at least 3): USNM 21 (Cochran 1961: 229; Reynolds et al. 2007: 11); and MCZ 1801 and 31960 (Barbour & Loveridge 1929: 241 reported only two syntypes in the MCZ numbered 1801 – 1802); type locality correction by Ernst (1967: 133) by default makes MCZ 1801 the lectotype (Smith & Smith 1980: 423).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
Where it has been recorded
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Every page naming Chrysemys dorsalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2443135.