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Glyptemys muhlenbergii (bog turtle)
Taxonomy
Testudo muhlenbergii was named by Schoepff (1801). It is extant.
It was recombined as Calemys muhlenbergii by Agassiz (1857); it was recombined as Clemmys muhlenbergii by McDowell (1964); it was recombined as Clemmys muhlenbergi by Bickham (1975); it was misspelled as Clemmys muhlenbergi by Hutchison (1963); it was recombined as Glyptemys muhlenbergii by Holman and Fritz (2001), Holman (2002), van Dijk et al. (2014), Eshelman et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Calemys muhlenbergii by Agassiz (1857); it was recombined as Clemmys muhlenbergii by McDowell (1964); it was recombined as Clemmys muhlenbergi by Bickham (1975); it was misspelled as Clemmys muhlenbergi by Hutchison (1963); it was recombined as Glyptemys muhlenbergii by Holman and Fritz (2001), Holman (2002), van Dijk et al. (2014), Eshelman et al. (2025).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1801 | Testudo muhlenbergii Schoepff |
| 1857 | Calemys muhlenbergii Agassiz |
| 1963 | Clemmys muhlenbergi Hutchison p. 156 |
| 1964 | Clemmys muhlenbergii McDowell |
| 1975 | Clemmys muhlenbergi Bickham p. 200 |
| 2001 | Glyptemys muhlenbergii Holman and Fritz p. 323 |
| 2002 | Glyptemys muhlenbergii Holman p. 443 |
| 2014 | Glyptemys muhlenbergii van Dijk et al. |
| 2025 | Glyptemys muhlenbergii Eshelman et al. p. 78 |
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Glyptemys muhlenbergii Schoepff 1801 [bog turtle]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| carapace height | 1 | 36.9 |
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| References: Uetz 2005, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Irvingtonian or 1.40000 to 0.21000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Clemmys muhlenbergi (20302) |