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Rank: | Species | |
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Parent: | Geoemyda Gray, 1834 | |
Specific Name: | amamiensis | |
Authorship: | Takahashi, Kato & Ota | |
Publication: | A new species of the genus Geoemyda (Chelonii: Geoemydidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Tokunoshima Island, the central Ryukyus, Japan. Current Herpetology 26(1): 1–11. | |
Page: | 3 | |
Figure(s): | Figs. 2, 3, 4A, 5A | |
Type Specimen(s): | Holotype: RUMF-GF-5011 | |
Type Locality: | sea cliff at Kojima, Isen Town, Tokunoshima Island, the Amami Group (Kagoshima Prefecture), the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan; fissure-filling deposit developed in the Pleistocene Tokunoshima Formation of the Ryukyu Group | |
Fossil: | Yes | |