Comprehensive Description
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Kachuga smithii pallidipes Moll, 1987
[= Kachuga smithii pallidipes Moll, 1987]
Moll, 1987, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84(1):8, pl. 3: figs. B, C.
Paratype: USNM 257779 (alcoholic adult female, CL “15.6” cm), Karnali River, Royal Bardia Wildlife Reserve, 2 km N of Thakurdara, Bardiya District, Bheri, Nepal; collected by Iman Singh and Joseph C. Mitchell, 23 Apr 1985.
Type Locality: “Gandak River, Bherihasi Wildlife Sanctuary, Bettiah (West Champaran) District, Bihar” [India].
Other Type Material: Holotype: FMNH 224177. Paratype: FMNH 224186.
Etymology: The name pallidipes is from the Latin pallidus, pale or pallid, and ped, foot, referring to the light pigmented feet of the subspecies.
Mauremys mutica kami Yasukawa, Ota, and Iverson, 1996
[= Mauremys mutica kami Yasukawa, Ota, and Iverson, 1996]
Yasukawa, Ota, and Iverson, 1996, Zool. Sci. (Japan) 13(2):311, fig. 7.
Paratypes: USNM 498367 (alcoholic adult male, CL 132 mm); USNM 498368 (alcoholic adult female, CL 146 mm); both from Uranchi, Iriomrtejima, Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and collected by Yuichirou Yasukawa, 3 Aug 1992.
Type Locality: “Okawa, Ishigakijima Is., the Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Archipeligo, Japan.”
Other Type Material: Holotype: KUZ 19541. Paratypes: BMNH 1994.527–28; CAS 200286–87; KUZ 19508, 19524–25, 19527–28, 19533–40, 19542; NSMT 02098–99, 02100, 02102–03, 02108; OMNH 4018–19.
Etymology: The term kami refers to the vernacular name for turtles among the inhabitants of the Yaeyama Group, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
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- citation bibliographique
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626