| Mesoclemmys | |
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| Mesoclemmys gibba | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelinae |
| Genus: | Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Mesoclemmys is a South American genus of turtle in the Chelidae family.
Species include:
- Mesoclemmys dahli (Zangerl and Medem, 1958) - Dahl's toad-headed turtle[5]
- Mesoclemmys gibba (Schweigger, 1812) - Gibba turtle[6]
- Mesoclemmys heliostemma (McCord, Joseph-Ouni, and Lamar 2001)[4]
- Mesoclemmys jurutiensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro & Vogt, 2021[7]
- Mesoclemmys nasuta (Schweigger, 1812)[8]
- Mesoclemmys perplexa Bour & Zaher, 2005[9]
- Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856) - Amazon toad-headed turtle[10]
- Mesoclemmys sabiniparaensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro, Vogt, Mittermeier, Rhodin & Andrade, 2022[11]
- Mesoclemmys tuberculata (Luederwaldt, 1926) - Tuberculate toad-headed turtle[12]
- Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973) - Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle[13]
- Mesoclemmys zuliae (Pritchard and Trebbau, 1984) - Zulia toad-headed turtle[14]
- †Mesoclemmys vanegasorum (Cadena et al., 2020) - La Victoria Formation, Laventan Colombia[15]
References
- 1 2 Gray, J.E. 1873. Observations on chelonians, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)11:289–308.
- ↑ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.]. 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., 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(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
- ↑ Stejneger, Leonhard. 1909. Generic names of some Chelyid turtles. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22:125–127.
- 1 2 3 McCord, William P., Joseph-Ouni, Mehdi, and Lamar, William W. 2001. A taxonomic reevaluation of Phrynops (Testudines: Chelidae) with the description of two new genera and a new species of Batrachemys. Revista de Biología Tropical 49(2):715–764.
- ↑ Zangerl, R., and F. Medem. 1958. A new species of chelid turtle, Phrynops (Batrachemys) dahli, from Colombia. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 375-390
- ↑ Schweigger, A.F. 1812. Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem., 1: 271-368, 406-458.
- ↑ Fábio A.G. Cunha; Iracilda Sampaio; Jeferson Carneiro; and Richard C. Vogt. (2021). "A New Species of Amazon Freshwater Toad-Headed Turtle in the Genus Mesoclemmys (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from Brazil". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 20 (2): 151-166. doi:10.2744/CCB-1448.1.
- ↑ Schweigger, Augustus F. 1812. Prodromus monographiae Cheloniorum. Königsberger Archiv für Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik 1:271–368, 406–462.
- ↑ Bour, Roger and Zaher, Hussam. 2005. A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 45:295–311.
- ↑ Gray, John Edward. 1856 [“1855”]. Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). London: British Museum, 79 pp. [Published Mar 1856].
- ↑ Cunha, Fábio A.G.; Sampaio, Iracilda; Carneiro, Jeferson; Vogt, Richard C.; Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Andrade, Marcelo C. (2022). "A New South American Freshwater Turtle of the Genus Mesoclemmys from the Brazilian Amazon (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae)". Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 21 (2). doi:10.2744/CCB-1524.1. S2CID 255226448. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
- ↑ Luederwaldt, Hermann. 1926. Os chelonios brasileiros. Revista Museo Paulista 14:403–470.
- ↑ Bour, Roger. 1973. Contribution à la connaissance de Phrynops nasutus (Schweigger: 1812) et Phrynops tuberculatus (Luederwaldt: 1926). Description d’une nouvelle sous-espèce originaire du Paraguay, Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei (Testudinata – Pleurodira – Chelidae). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 98(1):175–190.
- ↑ Pritchard, Peter C.H. and Trebbau, Pedro 1984. The Turtles of Venezuela. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Contributions in Herpetology No. 2, 403 pp.
- ↑ Cadena, Edwin-Alberto; Andrés Vanegas; Carlos Jaramillo; John M. Cottle, and Thomas A. Johnson. 2020. A new Miocene turtle from Colombia sheds light on the evolutionary history of the extant genus Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in press(). e1716777. Accessed 2020-02-26.
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