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Genus PSEUDEMYS" Gray. 



1855. Pseudemys Gray, Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., p. 33 (type P. concinna). 

 1857. Ptychemys Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, p. 431 (type P. rugosa 



Gray) (not of Pomel). 

 1857. Trachemys Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, p. 434 (type T. scabra). 

 1857. Nectemys Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., II, p. 642 (substitute for 



Ptychemys, preoccupied ) . 

 1889. Chrysemys Boulenger, Cat. Chel. Brit. Mus., p. 69 (part). 



The fresh-water turtles are but scantily represented in the West 

 Indian region. In fact, the only indigenous Emydine species found 

 in an} 7 of the Antilles is the one belonging to the present genus, which 

 is represented in North and Middle America by numerous species. 



PSEUDEMYS PALUSTRIS & (Gmelin). 



1788. Testudo palustris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, iii, p. 1041 (type locality, Jamaica). 



1788. Testudo terrapen Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Quadr. Ovip. Serp., I, Syn. meth. 

 between pp. 618 and 619 (type locality, Jamaica) (not T. terrapin Schopf 

 1792) .— Bonnaterre, Tab. Encycl. Erpet,, 1789, p. 30. 



1 802. Testudo rugosa Shaw, Gen. Zool. , III, i, p. 28, pi. iv ( type locality, unknown ) 

 (not of Daidin, 1803). — Emys migosa Cocteau, in Sagra's Hist. Fis. 

 Pol. Nat. Cuba, IV, Rept., p. 17; Atlas, Rept., pi. n (1838) (Cuba); 

 French ed. (p. 11). — Gosse, Nat. Soj. Jamaica, 1851, p. 189 (Jamaica). — 

 Gundlach, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, II, No. 5, April, 1867, p. 

 104 (Cuba); Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., IV, 1875, p. 349 (Cuba) ; X, 

 1881 (p. 307) (Porto Rico), Con trib. Erpet. Cubana, 1880, p. 9 (Cuba).— 

 Vilaro, in Poey's Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, II, No. 5, April, 1867, p. 

 120. — Sowerby and Lear, Tort., 1872 (pis. xlii-xliii).— Stahl, Fauna 

 Puerto-Rico, 1882, p. 68 (Porto Rico). — Garman, Proc. Amer. Philos. 

 Soc, XXIV, 1887, p. 286 (San Juan, Porto Rico, Cuba).— Trachemys 

 rugosa Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. U. S. Amer., I, 1857, p. 436 

 (Habana).— Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 48 

 (Cuba). 



1831. Emys decussata Gray, Synops. Rept., p. 28 (type locality, "America 

 borealis " ) ; Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1855, p. 30.— Griffith, Cuvier's 

 Anim. Kingd., IX, 1831, pi. opp. p. 76. — Bell, Monogr. Testud., Pts. 

 4-5, 1835, p. — (pi. vi). — Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., II, 1835, 

 p. 279 (Santo Domingo; Ricord coll.). — Cocteau, in Sagra's Hist. Fis. 

 Pol. Nat, Cuba, IV, 1838, Rept., p. 14; French ed. (p. 6); Atlas, Rept., 

 pi. i (Cuba).— Dumeril, Cat. M6th. Rept. Mus. Paris, 1, 1851, p. 11 (Santo 

 Domingo, Cuba, Guadeloupe). — Gosse, Nat. Soj. Jamaica, 1851, p. 187 

 (Jamaica). — Reinhardt and Luetken, Vid. Meddel. Naturh. Foren. 

 (Copenhagen), 1862 (1863), p. 290; author's separate p. 138 (Santo 

 Domingo). — Ptychemys d. Agassiz, Contr. Nat. Hist. V. S. Amer., 

 1, 1857, p. 434 (Habana). — Clemmys d. Strauch, Chenol. Studien, 1862 

 (p. 33); Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb., (7) XXXVIII, No. 2, 1890, p. 78 

 (Port au Prince, Haiti). — Peters, Mon. Ber. Berlin Akad. Wiss., 1876, 

 p. 705 (Porto Rico). — Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., X, 1881, 

 p. 307 (Porto Rico). — Pseudemys d. Gray, Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. 

 Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 47. 



ai/>ev8r}s, false; k/ivs, fresh-water turtle. b Latin = living in swamps. 



