Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Terrapene bauri Taylor, 1895
[= Terrapene carolina bauri Taylor, 1895; fide, Carr, 1940:100, Ernst and McBreen, 1991:512.6]
Taylor, 1895, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 17(1019):576.
Holotype: USNM 8352 (alcoholic adult female, CL 137 mm), collected by F. B. Meek, 1875.
Type Locality: “Florida;” restricted to “Orlando, Florida” [Orange County] by Schmidt (1953:94).
Etymology: The name bauri is a patronym honoring Dr. Georg Baur, “who first noted the peculiarities of the type.”
- bibliographic citation
- Reynolds, Robert P., Gotte, Steve W., and Ernst, Carl H. 2007. "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.626
