Northern spotted box turtle

Northern spotted box turtle
seen in Sonora, Mexico
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Emydidae
Genus:	Terrapene
Species:	T. nelsoni
Subspecies:	T. n. klauberi
Trinomial name
Terrapene nelsoni klauberi Bogert, 1943
Synonyms [1]
Terrapene klauberi Bogert, 1943 Terrapene nelsoni klauberi — Mertens & Wermuth, 1955 Terapene klauberi — Nietzke, 1973

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.

Geographic range

T. n. klauberi is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.

Etymology

The subspecific name, klauberi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber. ^[2]

References

1. 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).
2. 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

• Bogert CM (1943). "A New Box Turtle from Southeastern Sonora, Mexico". American Museum Novitates (1226): 1–7. (Terrapene klauberi, new species).

External links

• Terrapene nelsoni klauberi at the Catalogue of Life