Balkan pond turtle

Balkan pond turtle
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Mauremys
Species:	M. rivulata
Binomial name
	Mauremys rivulata; (Valenciennes, 1833)
Synonyms
	Emys rivulata Valenciennes, 1833; Emys tristrami Gray, 1869; Emys caspica var. arabica Gray, 1870; Emys pannonica Gray, 1870; Emys tristram Gray, 1873 (ex errore); Emys arabica Gray, 1873; Clemmys caspica orientalis Bedriaga, 1881; Clemmys caspica var. rivulata Boulenger, 1889; Clemmys caspica var. obsoleta Schreiber, 1912; Clemmys caspica cretica Mertens, 1946; Mauremys caspica rivulata Młynarski, 1969; Mauremys rivulata Bour, 1994; Mauremys rivulata rivulata Maran, 1996; Mauremys rivulata tristrami Maran, 1996; Mauremys caspica cretica Bonin, Devaux & Dupré, 1996; Emmenia rivulata Vetter, 2006; Mauremys rivulata cretica Bonin, Devaux & Dupré, 2006;

The Balkan terrapin or western Caspian terrapin (Mauremys rivulata)^[1] is a species of terrapin in the family Geoemydidae.^[1] It is found in the Balkan Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece), a number of Mediterranean islands including Crete, Lesvos and Cyprus, and in the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey).^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.112
^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment. 57 (2): 149–368. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
^ Mauremys rivulata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 March 2019.

Bibliography

Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.

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[Rhodin112-1] Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.112

[Fritz_2007-2] Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment. 57 (2): 149–368. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011.

[RDB-3] Mauremys rivulata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 March 2019.

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Balkan pond turtle


Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Mauremys
Species:	M. rivulata
Binomial name
*Mauremys rivulata* (Valenciennes, 1833)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Emys rivulata Valenciennes, 1833 Emys tristrami Gray, 1869 Emys caspica var. arabica Gray, 1870 Emys pannonica Gray, 1870 Emys tristram Gray, 1873 (ex errore) Emys arabica Gray, 1873 Clemmys caspica orientalis Bedriaga, 1881 Clemmys caspica var. rivulata Boulenger, 1889 Clemmys caspica var. obsoleta Schreiber, 1912 Clemmys caspica cretica Mertens, 1946 Mauremys caspica rivulata Młynarski, 1969 Mauremys rivulata Bour, 1994 Mauremys rivulata rivulata Maran, 1996 Mauremys rivulata tristrami Maran, 1996 Mauremys caspica cretica Bonin, Devaux & Dupré, 1996 Emmenia rivulata Vetter, 2006 Mauremys rivulata cretica Bonin, Devaux & Dupré, 2006