Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Furrowed wood turtle ORDER - TESTUDINES FAMILY - Emydidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Rhinoclemmys areolata SYNONYMS - Emys areolata, Dumeril and Bibron, 1851 REFERENCES - 4 and 1 District Reference Corozal, Belize 2 Orange Walk, Belize 2 Belize, Belize 2 Cayo, Belize 2 Stann Creek, Belize 2 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Government land 2 Shipstern Nature Reserve 2 Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve 2 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 2 Gallon Jug 2 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) 2 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Private 2 Hidden Valley & Falls (Bull Run) 2 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 2 Turneffe Reef Wet season 3 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 2 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 2 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 2 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 2 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 2 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 2 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 2 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 2 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 3 17 15' to 17 30'; 87 45' to 88 00' 2 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 2 General Distribution Comments 3* Platt: "Reported from Blackbird Cay only. Most other cays may lack sufficient terrestrial habitat to support populations." References 1 King, F. W. , R. L. Blake eds. 1989. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. ASC. Wash. DC. pp. 46-47. 2 Meerman, J., 1994. Summary of Herpetofauna Distributions in Belize. Report to National Protected Areas Management Project. 3 Platt, S. G. 1994. Checklist of Fauna Recorded During Crocodile Surveys of Turneffe Atoll. Unpub. checklist. 4 Lee, Julian C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock Publishing Associates. Ithaca, New York.
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01/19/98