Mesoclemmys
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| Mesoclemmys | |
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| Mesoclemmys gibba | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelinae |
| Genus: | Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Mesoclemmys is a genus of South American turtles in the family Chelidae.
Species
Species include:
- Mesoclemmys dahli (Zangerl & Medem, 1958) – Dahl's toad-headed turtle[5]
- Mesoclemmys gibba (Schweigger, 1812) – Gibba turtle[6]
- Mesoclemmys heliostemma (McCord, Joseph-Ouni & Lamar, 2001)[4]
- Mesoclemmys jurutiensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro & Vogt, 2021[7]
- Mesoclemmys nasuta (Schweigger, 1812)[6]
- Mesoclemmys perplexa Bour & Zaher, 2005[8]
- Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856) – Amazon toad-headed turtle[9]
- Mesoclemmys sabiniparaensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro, Vogt, Mittermeier, Rhodin & Andrade, 2022[10]
- Mesoclemmys tuberculata (Luederwaldt, 1926) – Tuberculate toad-headed turtle[11]
- Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973) – Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle[12]
- Mesoclemmys zuliae (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Zulia toad-headed turtle[13]
- †Mesoclemmys vanegasorum (Cadena et al., 2020) – La Victoria Formation, Laventan Colombia[14]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesoclemmys.
References
- ^ a b Gray, J.E. (1873). "Observations on Chelonians, with Descriptions of new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series 11: 289–308.
- ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (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.) (2014). "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.
- ^ a b c McCord, William P.; Joseph-Ouni, Mehdi; 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.; Medem, F. (1958). "A New Species of Chelid Turtle, Phrynops (Batrachemys) dahli, from Colombia". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 119: 375–390
- ^ a b Schweigger, A.F. (1812). "Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger ". Königsberger Archiv Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik 1: 271–368, 406–462. (in Latin).
- ^ Cunha, Fábio A.G.; Sampaio, Iracilda; Carneiro, Jeferson; Vogt, Richard C. (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. S2CID 245355505.
- ^ Bour, Roger; 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) . Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Taylor and Francis, printers). 79 pp. + Plates I–XLII. .
- ^ 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. (in Portuguese).
- ^ 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. (in French).
- ^ Pritchard, Peter C.H.; 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; Vanegas, Andrés; Jaramillo, Carlos; Cottle, John M.; Johnson, Thomas A. (2020). "A new Miocene turtle from Colombia sheds light on the evolutionary history of the extant genus Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (5) e1716777. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1716777.
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