Mexican box turtle

Mexican box turtle
Mexican box turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species: T. carolina
Subspecies: T. c. mexicana
Trinomial name
Terrapene carolina mexicana
(Gray, 1849)
Synonyms

Cistudo mexicana Gray, 1849
Terrapene mexicana - Baur, 1893
Terrapene mexicana mexicana - Smith & Taylor, 1950
Terrapene carolina mexicana - Wermuth & Mertens, 1977

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

The Mexican box turtle (Terrapene carolina mexicana) is a subspecies of box turtle found in Mexico, in the states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz.



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