Mesoclemmys

Mesoclemmys
Mesoclemmys gibba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Subfamily:	Chelinae
Genus:	Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873 [1]
Synonyms [2]
MesoclemmysGray, 1873:305 [1] BatrachemysStejneger, 1909:126 [3] BufocephalaMcCord, Joseph-Ouni, and Lamar 2001:715 [4] RanacephalaMcCord, Joseph-Ouni, and Lamar 2001:715 [4]

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

1. Gray, J.E. (1873). "Observations on Chelonians, with Descriptions of new Genera and Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series11: 289–308.
2. 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.) (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.
3. Stejneger, Leonhard (1909). "Generic Names of Some Chelyid Turtles". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington22: 125–127.
4. 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 Tropical49 (2): 715–764.
5. 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 College119: 375–390
6. Schweigger, A.F. (1812). "Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger ". Königsberger Archiv Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik1: 271–368, 406–462. (in Latin).
7. 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.
8. Bour, Roger; Zaher, Hussam (2005). "A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia45: 295–311.
9. Gray, John Edward (1856) ["1855"]. 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. [Published March 1856].
10. 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.
11. Luederwaldt, Hermann (1926). "Os chelonios brasileiros ". Revista Museo Paulista14: 403–470. (in Portuguese).
12. 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 France98 (1): 175–190. (in French).
13. 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.
14. 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.