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Balkan Pond Turtle

Mauremys rivulata (Valenciennes 1833)

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Continent: Near-East Asia Europe
Distribution: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Syria, Turkey Greece (Crete, Ionian Peninsula, Limnos, Lesbos, Paros, Syphnos, Corfu = Corfou, Milos, Tinos, Kos [M. Delfino, pers. comm.])
Type locality: restricted to vicinity of Modon, Peloponnes, Greece (MERTENS & MÜLLER 1928)
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Balkan pond turtle

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The Balkan terrapin or western Caspian terrapin (Mauremys rivulata)[2] is a species of terrapin in the family Geoemydidae.[2] It is found in the Balkan Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece), a number of Mediterranean islands including Crete, Lesvos and Cyprus, and in the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey).[4]

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  1. ^ van Dijk, P.P.; Lymberakis, P.; Ahmed Mohammed Mousa Disi; Ajtic, R.; Tok, V.; Ugurtas, I.; Sevinç, M.; Haxhiu, I. (2004). "Mauremys rivulata ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T158470A5200041.
  2. ^ a b c Rhodin et al. 2010, p. 000.112
  3. ^ 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 May 1, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
  4. ^ Mauremys rivulata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 9 March 2019.

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Balkan pond turtle: Brief Summary

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

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