Mesoclemmys Explained

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^[1]
• Mesoclemmys gibba (Schweigger, 1812) – Gibba turtle^[2]
• Mesoclemmys heliostemma (McCord, Joseph-Ouni & Lamar, 2001)
• Mesoclemmys jurutiensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro & Vogt, 2021^[3]
• Mesoclemmys nasuta (Schweigger, 1812)^[2]
• Mesoclemmys perplexa Bour & Zaher, 2005^[4]
• Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856) – Amazon toad-headed turtle^[5]
• Mesoclemmys sabiniparaensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro, Vogt, Mittermeier, Rhodin & Andrade, 2022^[6]
• Mesoclemmys tuberculata (Luederwaldt, 1926) – Tuberculate toad-headed turtle^[7]
• Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973) – Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle^[8]
• Mesoclemmys zuliae (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Zulia toad-headed turtle^[9]
• †Mesoclemmys vanegasorum (Cadena et al., 2020) – La Victoria Formation, Laventan Colombia^[10]

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesoclemmys.

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Schweigger, A.F. (1812). "Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger ". Königsberger Archiv Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik 1: 271–368, 406–462. (in Latin).
3. 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 . 10.2744/CCB-1448.1. 245355505.
4. 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.
5. 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].
6. A New South American Freshwater Turtle of the Genus Mesoclemmys from the Brazilian Amazon (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) . 2022-12-24 . Chelonian Conservation and Biology . 10.2744/CCB-1524.1 . 2022 . Cunha . Fábio A.G. . Sampaio . Iracilda . Carneiro . Jeferson . Vogt . Richard C. . Mittermeier . Russell A. . Rhodin . Anders G.J. . Andrade . Marcelo C. . 21 . 2 . 255226448 .
7. Luederwaldt, Hermann (1926). "Os chelonios brasileiros ". Revista Museo Paulista 14: 403–470. (in Portuguese).
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. Edwin-Alberto . Cadena . Andrés . Vanegas . Carlos . Jaramillo . John M. . Cottle . Thomas A. . Johnson . 2020 . A new Miocene turtle from Colombia sheds light on the evolutionary history of the extant genus Mesoclemmys Gray, 1873 . . 39 . 5 . e1716777 . 10.1080/02724634.2019.1716777.