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Northern spotted box turtle

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Northern spotted box turtle
Terrapene nelsoni klauberi - September 2020.jpg
seen in Sonora, Mexico
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species:
T. nelsoni
Subspecies:
T. n. klauberi
Trinomial name
Terrapene nelsoni klauberi
Bogert, 1943
Synonyms [1]
  • Terrapene klauberi
    Bogert, 1943
  • Terrapene nelsoni klauberi
    — Mertens & Wermuth, 1955
  • Terapene klauberi
    — Nietzke, 1973

The northern spotted box turtle (Terrapene nelsoni klauberi), also commonly known as Klauber's box turtle [2] and Klauber's spotted box turtle, [2] is a subspecies of turtle in the family Emydidae.

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Geographic range

T. n. klauberi is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.

Etymology

The subspecific name, klauberi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 149–368. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . (Terrapene nelsoni klauberi, p. 200).
  2. 1 2 3 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Terrapene nelsoni klauberi, p. 143).

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