Clemmys
Appearance
Clemmys | |
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Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Emydidae |
Subfamily: | Emydinae |
Genus: | Clemmys Ritgen, 1828 |
Species | |
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Clemmys is a genus of turtles currently containing a single extant species, the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata).
Taxonomy
[edit]In the past, several other species were included in the genus, including a number of fossil species. DNA analysis has restricted the genus to containing only the spotted turtle.[1][2] Fossil species are now restricted to the Neogene of North America as far back as the Miocene.[3]
Extant species formerly in Clemmys
- Wood turtle - now Glyptemys insculpta
- Bog turtle - now Glyptemys muhlenbergii
- Western pond turtle - now Actinemys marmorata
Fossil species
- †Clemmys hesperia Hay, 1903 - Pliocene
- †Clemmys owyheensis Brattstrom & Sturn, 1959 - Miocene (Hemphillian)
References
[edit]- ^ Feldman, C.R. and J.F. Parham. (2002). Molecular phylogenetics of Emydine turtles: taxonomic revision and the evolution of shell kinesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:388-398.
- ^ Spinks, P.Q. and H.B. Shaffer. (2009). Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about Biogeography and Hybridization. Systematic Biology 58(1):1-20.
- ^ Holman, J.A.; Fritz, U. (2001). "A new emydine species from the Medial Miocene (Barstovian) of Nebraska, USA with a new generic arrangement for the species of Clemmys sensu McDowell (1964) (Reptilia: Testudines: Emydidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 51 (19): 331–353.