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Emys orbicularis (European pond turtle)
Taxonomy
Testudo orbicularis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Emys orbicularis by Hay (1902), Swinton (1934), Schleich (1980), Mlynarski (1984), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), van Dijk et al. (2014), Vlachos and Delfino (2016), Vlachos (2021), Zoboli et al. (2022).
It was recombined as Emys orbicularis by Hay (1902), Swinton (1934), Schleich (1980), Mlynarski (1984), Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi (1995), van Dijk et al. (2014), Vlachos and Delfino (2016), Vlachos (2021), Zoboli et al. (2022).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Testudo orbicularis Linnaeus |
| 1766 | Testudo orbicularis Linnaeus |
| 1889 | Testudo orbicularis Lydekker pp. 103-104 |
| 1902 | Emys orbicularis Hay p. 447 |
| 1934 | Emys orbicularis Swinton p. 72 |
| 1980 | Emys orbicularis Schleich |
| 1984 | Emys orbicularis Mlynarski |
| 1995 | Emys orbicularis Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 238 |
| 2014 | Emys orbicularis van Dijk et al. |
| 2016 | Emys orbicularis Vlachos and Delfino |
| 2021 | Emys orbicularis Vlachos |
| 2022 | Emys orbicularis Zoboli et al. |
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Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 [European pond turtle]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Vlachos 2021 | The most reliable characters to diagnose Emys orbicularis in the Greek fossil record are the presence of a hyo-hypoplastral hinge seen as a complete coincidence of the hyo-hypoplastral suture and the pectoro-abdominal sulcus; a nuchal plate overlapped laterally by the pleural I; a lyre-shaped vertebral I; and small pygal that is covered by the vertebral V and the marginals XII. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uetz 2005 | |||||
Collections (70 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pliocene | Slovakia | Emys orbicularis (193251) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Umbria) | Emys orbicularis (51684) | |
| Ruscinian | Greece (Florina) | Emys orbicularis (214354) | |
| MN 15 | Poland | Emys orbicularis (33396) | |
| MN 15 | Slovakia (Trenčín) | Emys orbicularis (34255) | |
| MN 15 - MN 16 | Poland (Siedlce) | Emys wermuthi (34840) | |
| Villafranchian | Slovakia | Emys orbicularis (41026) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Germany (Thüringen) | Emys orbicularis (43020 45063 45086) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Slovakia | Emys orbicularis (193253) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Emys orbicularis (35457) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greece (Mygdonia) | Emys orbicularis (200084) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Croatia (Istria) | Emys orbicularis (40500) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Italy (Foggia) | Emys orbicularis (242160) | |
| Pleistocene | Slovakia | Emys orbicularis (193252 193254 193255) | |
| Pleistocene | France | Emys orbicularis (195262) | |
| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Emys orbicularis (125089) | |
| Pleistocene | Greece (Peloponnesus) | Emys orbicularis (182721) | |
| Pleistocene | Malta | Emys orbicularis (190860) | |
| MN 17 | France (Haute-Loire) | Emys orbicularis (47133) | |
| Calabrian | Spain (Palencia) | Emys orbicularis (205231) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom | Emys orbicularis (34981 195119) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Malaga) | Emys orbicularis (195564) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Emys orbicularis (77754 195198) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Greece | Emys orbicularis (187637 194472 194474 194476 194477 199937 199938 199939 199940) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Corse) | Emys orbicularis (69062) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Capri Island) | Emys sp. (43016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Netherlands | Emys orbicularis (109704) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Madrid) | Emys orbicularis (195267) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Midi-Pyrenees) | Emys orbicularis (195222) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Czechia | Emys orbicularis (195228) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Greece (Peloponnesos) | Emys orbicularis (200080 200081 200082) | |
| Middle Pleistocene (interglacial) | United Kingdom (Somerset) | Emys orbicularis (195199) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | United Kingdom (Norfolk) | Emys orbicularis (195206) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Emys orbicularis (122309) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | United Kingdom (Suffolk) | Emys orbicularis (195204 195210) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Emys orbicularis (195265) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Sussex) | Emys orbicularis (195208) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal (Leiria) | Emys orbicularis (230380) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | Emys orbicularis (190854 226836) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Croatia | Emys orbicularis (94487) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France | Emys orbicularis (86273 195238) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom | Emys orbicularis (93804 93805 93816) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Germany (Brandenburg) | Emys orbicularis (198613) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Greece (Argolida) | Emys sp., Mauremys sp. (182709) | |
| Holocene | Italy (Veneto) | Emys orbicularis (193569) | |
| Holocene | Greece (Attica) | Emys orbicularis (183130) | |
| Holocene | Spain (Madrid) | Emys orbicularis (205224) | |
| Holocene | Bulgaria (Tolbuchin) | Emys orbicularis (227255) | |
| Holocene | Germany | Emys orbicularis (216169) |