Distribution
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia (Dagestan), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan.
Distribution of Mauremys caspica in Turkey and the Middle East. Yellow dots = museum and literature occurrence records of native populations based on Iverson (1992), other more recent literature records (see TTWG 2017, 2021, in press), and authors' additional data); orange dots = possibly introduced or translocated specimens. Distribution based on fine-scaled GIS-defined level 12 HUCs (hydrologic unit compartments) constructed around verified localities and then adding HUCs that connect known point localities in the same watershed or physiographic region, and similar habitats and elevations as verified HUCs based on Buhlmann et al. (2009), TTWG (2017, 2021), and data from authors and other sources.
Citation
Vamberger, M., Busack, S.D., Ayaz, D., Fritz, U., and Mazanaeva, L.F. 2024. Mauremys caspica (Gmelin 1774) – Caspian Turtle, Caspian Terrapin, West Asian Stripe-necked Terrapin. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(18):125.1–15. doi: 10.3854/crm.5.125.caspica.v1.2024; www.iucn-tftsg.org/cbftt/.