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Pelusios
Taxonomy
Pelusios was named by Wagler (1830). It is extant.
It was assigned to Pelusiinae by Zangerl (1948); to Pelomedusoides by Cadena et al. (2012); and to Pelomedusidae by Auffenberg (1981), Frank and Ramus (1996), Gaffney et al. (2006), van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Pelusiinae by Zangerl (1948); to Pelomedusoides by Cadena et al. (2012); and to Pelomedusidae by Auffenberg (1981), Frank and Ramus (1996), Gaffney et al. (2006), van Dijk et al. (2014).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1830 | Pelusios Wagler |
| 1948 | Pelusios Zangerl p. 48 |
| 1981 | Pelusios Auffenberg p. 513 |
| 1996 | Pelusios Frank and Ramus |
| 2006 | Pelusios Gaffney et al. p. 34 |
| 2012 | Pelusios Cadena et al. |
| 2014 | Pelusios van Dijk et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Pelusios Wagler 1830
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Pelusios adansonii Schweigger 1812 [Adansons mud turtle]
Pelusios bechuanicus FitzSimons 1932 [Okavango mud turtle]
Pelusios broadleyi Bour 1986 [Turkana mud turtle]
Pelusios carinatus Laurent 1956 [African keeled mud turtle]
Pelusios castaneus Schweigger 1812 [West African mud turtle]
Pelusios castanoides Hewitt 1931 [Yellow-bellied mud turtle]
Pelusios chapini Laurent 1965 [Central African mud turtle]
Pelusios cupulatta Bour and Maran 2003 [Ivory Coast mud turtle]
Pelusios gabonensis Duméril 1856 [African forest turtle]
Pelusios marani Bour 2000 [Gabon mud turtle]
Pelusios nanus Laurent 1956 [African dwarf mud turtle]
Pelusios niger Duméril and Bibron 1835 [West African black mud turtle]
Pelusios rhodesianus Hewitt 1927 [Variable mud turtle]
†Pelusios rusingae Williams 1954
Pelusios sinuatus Smith 1838 [Serrated hinged terrapin]
Pelusios subniger Bonnaterre 1789 [East African black mud turtle]
Pelusios upembae Broadley 1981 [Upemba mud turtle]
Pelusios williamsi Laurent 1965 [Williams mud turtle]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.45000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.98 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.98 Ma
Collections (32 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | Uganda | P. sinuatus (22438 22442) P. sp. (22409 22436) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | P. rusingae (21725) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | P. sp. (22071 22077 22082) | |
| Langhian | Kenya (Nyanza) | P. sp. (21338 21339) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Kenya | P. sp. (22303) | |
| Pliocene | Malawi | P. sinuatus (22271) | |
| Pliocene | South Africa | P. sp. (22356) | |
| Pliocene | Uganda | P. sinuatus (22256) | |
| Pliocene | Congo-Kinshasa | P. sinuatus (22198) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | P. sp., P. sinuatus (22346) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Uganda | P. sp. (22200) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Malawi | P. sinuatus (22327) | |
| Pliocene - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | P. sinuatus (22125) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Uganda | P. sp. (22178) | |
| Gelasian | Tanzania | P. sinuatus (22593 22595) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Eritrea (Buia) | P. sinuatus (193126) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | P. sinuatus (144173) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Eritrea | P. sinuatus (185616) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Tanzania (Serengeti Park) | P. sp. (22548) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | P. sinuatus (21972) | |
| Holocene | Niger | P. adansonii (83303 83304 83305) | |
| Holocene | Mali | P. adansonii, P. castaneus (195272) P. castaneus (195271) |