Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Synonym: Paralichelys Bergounioux 1935
Parent taxon: Geoemydidae according to E. Vlachos 2021
See also Bickham 1975, Carroll 1988, Claude et al. 2012, Collareta et al. 2020, Ernst and Barbour 1989, Frank and Ramus 1996, Hervet 2004, Staesche et al. 2007, van Dijk et al. 2014, Vlachos and Delfino 2016, Vlachos et al. 2015 and Vlachos et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Bridgeremys, Clemmydopsis, Cuora, Cyclemys, Echmatemys, Geiselemys, Geoemyda, Geoemydinae, Guangdongemys, Isometremys, Ocadia, Orlitia, Palaeochelyinae, Palaeochelys, Palatochelydia, Ptychogasterinae, Ptychogastrini, Rhinoclemmydinae, Rhinoclemmys, Sacalia, Siebenrockiella
Subtaxa: Clemmys precaspica Emys prosigriz Mauremys annamensis Mauremys aristotelica Mauremys caspica Mauremys fenhoense Mauremys gaudryi Mauremys guntiana Mauremys isoclina Mauremys japonica Mauremys leprosa Mauremys massiliensis Mauremys mutica Mauremys nigricans Mauremys portisi Mauremys pygolopha Mauremys reevesii Mauremys rivulata Mauremys sarmatica Mauremys sinensis Mauremys sophiae Mauremys thanhinensis Mauremys yabei
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Greece (8), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (3), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (1), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of France (6), Greece (3), Italy (2), Japan (1), Spain (3)
• MN 13 of Turkey (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (2)
• Miocene of Austria (6), France (13), Germany (20), Greece (4), Italy (4), Spain (3), Turkey (6), the United Arab Emirates (11)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Romania (1), Thailand (1)
Total: 113 collections including 115 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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