Mexican box turtle

Mexican box turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Terrapene
Species:	T. carolina
Subspecies:	T. c. mexicana
Trinomial name
Terrapene carolina mexicana (Gray, 1849)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cistudo (Onychotria) mexicana Gray, 1849 Onychotria mexicana – LeConte, 1854 Cistudo carolina var. mexicana – Boulenger, 1889 Onichotria mexicana – Herrera, 1890 Chelopus mexicanus – Velasco, 1892 Terrapene mexicana – Baur, 1893 Terrapene goldmani Stejneger, 1933 Terrapene mexicana mexicana – H.M. Smith & Taylor, 1950 Terrapene carolina mexicana – Milstead, 1967 Terapene mexicana mexicana – Nietzke, 1973

The Mexican box turtle (Terrapene carolina mexicana) is a subspecies of box turtle endemic to Mexico.

Geographic range

It is found in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.^[1]

Gallery

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  A Mexican box turtle on display in Göteborgs Naturhistoriska museum (Gothenburg Museum of Natural History).

References

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22. 
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17.