Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Malaclemys terrapin tequesta Schwartz, 1955
[= Malaclemys terrapin tequesta Schwartz, 1955; fide Ernst and Bury, 1982:299.2]
Schwartz, 1955, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 68(27):158.
Paratype: USNM 37020 (alcoholic male, CL 170 mm), New Smyrna, Volusia County, Florida, collected by Barton W. Evermann, 3 Dec 1905.
Type Locality: “Miami Beach, Dade County, Florida” [Miami-Dade County].
Other Type Material: Holotype: UMMZ 108482. Paratypes: UF 4242, 6589–90; MCZ 20287, 48787; UMMZ 106147–51.
Etymology: The name tequesta honors the native American tribe Tequesta of eastern Florida.
- 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
