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.
| Northern spotted box turtle | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Emydidae |
| Genus: | Terrapene |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | T. n. klauberi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Terrapene nelsoni klauberi Bogert, 1943
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Geographic range
editT. n. klauberi is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.
Etymology
editThe subspecific name, klauberi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber.[2]
References
edit- ^ 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).
- ^ a b c 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).
Further reading
edit- Bogert CM (1943). "A New Box Turtle from Southeastern Sonora, Mexico". American Museum Novitates (1226): 1–7. (Terrapene klauberi, new species).
External links
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