140 STEJNEGER AND BARBOUR, 1933 



CHELYDRIDAE (FAMILY) 



Macrochelys (GENUS) 



Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1855 (Jan. 22, 1856), p. 200 

 type: temminckii 



Macrochelys temminckii (Troost) 



ALLIGATOR-SNAPPER 



Chelonura temminckii Troost 



in Harlan's Med. Phys. Res., 1835, p. 158, footnote. 

 Macrochelys temminckii Gray 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1855 (Jan. 22, 1856), p. 200. 



TYPE locality: Tributary stream of the Mississippi above 



Memphis, in West Tennessee. 

 range: Texas east to southeastern Georgia and northern Florida, 



north in the Mississippi basin to northern Missouri. 



Chelydra (GENUS) 



ScHWEiGGER, Konigsberg. Arch. Naturw. Math., Vol. 1, 1812, Pt. 3, p. 292 



type: serpentina 



Chelydra osceola Stejneger 



FLORIDA SNAPPER 



Chelydra osceola Stejneger 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 31, June 24, 1918, p. 89. 



TYPE locality: Clearwater, Pinellas Co., Florida. 

 range: Central and southern Florida. 



Chelydra serpentina (Linne) 



COMMON SNAPPER 



Testudo serpentina Linne 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, Vol. 1, 1758, p. 199. 

 Chelydra serpentina Schweigger 



Konigsberg. Arch. Naturw. Math., Vol. 1, 1812, Pt. 3, p. 293. 



TYPE locality: "Warmer regions." 



range: Eastern North America from southern Canada and Nova 

 Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico and west to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



