Chicken Turtle
Deirochelys reticularia (Latreille, 1801)
Also calledLanghals-Schmuckschildkröte (deu) · Netschildpad (nld) · Tortuga pollo (spa) · hosszúnyakú ékszerteknős (hun) · Émyde réticulée (fra) · želva síťovaná (ces) · Длинношеяя черепаха (rus) · سلحفاة الدجاج (ara) · アミメガメ (jpn) · 雞龜 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Holotype: Formerly in MNHN, now lost; illustrated in the original description, Fig. 1, opp. p. 124; CHM 54.48.1 (photographed by Schwartz 1956 a: 471; not 54.68.1 as listed by Zug & Schwartz 1971: 1; now NCSM 88836) designated neotype by Schwartz (1956 a: 466). NCSM 52.140.5 designated neoallotype by Schwartz (1956 a: 466), who included photographs of it (1956 a: 472).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
Where it has been recorded
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Every page naming Deirochelys reticularia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2443154.