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Type locality. — Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 



Range. — Pacific slopes of Mexico southward from southern Sinaloa, 

 and both Atlantic and Pacific slopes (presumably) of Central America 

 to Panama and possibly northern South America; Atlantic slopes of 

 Mexico east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (recorded in Mexico from 

 the states of Sinaloa, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Cliiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, 

 and Yucatan, and from Cozumel Island). 



PSEUDEMYS SCRIPTA NEBULOSA (Van Denburgh) 



Chrysemys nebulosa Van Denburgh, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 5, 



1895, p. 84, pis. 4-6. 

 Pseiidemys scripta nebulosa, Carr, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1181, 1942, p. 1. 



Type . — D estroy ed . 



Type locality. — Los Dolores, Baja California, Mexico. 



Range. — The southern half of Baja California. 



PSEUDEMYS SCRIPTA HILTONI Carr 



Pseudemys scripta hiltoni Carr, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1181, 1942, pp. 1-4, fig. 1-3. 



Type. — Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 63747; John W. Hilton collector. 



Type locality. — Guirocoba, 28 miles southeast of Alamos, Sonora, 

 Mexico. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality; presumably occurs in 

 northern Sinaloa as well as in Sonora. 



PSEUDEMYS SCRIPTA CATASPILA (Gunther) 



Emys cataspila Gunther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Reptilia and Batrachia, 



1885, p. 4, pi. 6, fig. B. 

 Pseudemys scripta cataspila, Carr, Herpetologica, vol. 1, 1938, p. 135. — Hartweg, 



Copeia, 1939, No. 1, p. 55. 

 ? Emys callirostris Grat, Catalogue of the shield reptiles in the British Museum, 



vol. 1, 1855, p. 25, pi. 12B (type locality uncertain, here restricted to Alva- 



rado, Veracruz; type in Brit. Mus.). 



Type. — Brit. Mus., seven cotypes. 



Type locality. — Alexico, here restricted to Alvarado, Veracruz. 



Range. — Atlantic slopes of Mexico from the northern border to the 

 Isthmus of Tehuantepec (recorded from the states of Tamaulipas 

 and Veracruz). 



PSEUDEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS (Wied) 



Emys elegans Wied, Reise durch Nord-America, vol. 1, pt. 4, 1838, p. 213. 



Pseudemys elegans. Cope, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 1, 1875, p. 53. 



Chrysemys scripta elegans, Sibbenrock, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl., vol. 10, 1909, pp. 



464-465. 

 Pseudemys troostii elegans, Stejneger and Barbour, Check list North American 



amphibians and reptiles, ed. 4, 1939, p. 167. — Schmidt and Owens, Publ. 



Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 29, 1944, p. 101. 

 Pseudemys scripta elegans, Cagle, Copeia, 1944, No. 2, p. 105. 



