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Amyda

Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Taxonomy
Amyda was named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1809). It is extant.

It was corrected as Emyda by Lydekker (1889); it was reranked as Trionyx (Amyda) by Bergounioux (1954).

It was assigned to Emydinae by Lydekker (1889); to Trionyx by Bergounioux (1954); to Trionychidae by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1809), Cope (1875), Cope (1884), Hay (1908), Gilmore (1915), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1931), Gilmore (1934), Yeh (1963), Frank and Ramus (1996), Sukhanov (2000) and Brinkman et al. (2008); to Trionychinae by van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Chitrini by Cadena (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1809Amyda Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1875Amyda Cope p. 51
1884Emyda Cope
1889Emyda Lydekker p. 22
1908Amyda Hay p. 510
1915Amyda Gilmore p. 156
1930Amyda Hay p. 110
1931Amyda Gilmore p. 254
1934Amyda Gilmore
1954Trionyx (Amyda) Bergounioux p. 55
1963Amyda Yeh
1996Amyda Frank and Ramus
2000Amyda Sukhanov pp. 345-346
2008Amyda Brinkman et al. p. 72
2014Amyda van Dijk et al.
2016Amyda Cadena

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
familyTrionychidaeGray 1825
subfamilyTrionychinaeGray 1825
tribeChitriniGray 1870
genusAmydaGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809

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. Amyda Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Amyda cartilaginea Boddaert 1770
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Invalid names: Trionyx trinilensis Jaekel 1911 [synonym]
Amyda exquisita Hay 1908
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available