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Terrapene (box turtle)
Taxonomy
Terrapene was named by Merrem (1820). It is extant. Its type is Testudo carolina.
It was assigned to Emydinae by Bickham (1975), Holman (1985), Holman (2002) and van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Emydidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Carroll (1988), Parris and Daeschler (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), Vlachos (2018) and May (2019).
It was assigned to Emydinae by Bickham (1975), Holman (1985), Holman (2002) and van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Emydidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Carroll (1988), Parris and Daeschler (1995), Frank and Ramus (1996), Vlachos (2018) and May (2019).
Species
Cistudo eocaenica, Cistudo major, Cistudo marnochii, Cistudo mexicana, Cistudo triunguis, T. bulverda, T. carolina (syn. T. innoxia), T. coahuila, T. corneri, T. eurypygia (syn. Toxaspis anguillulatus), T. hibernaculum, T. impensa, T. impressa, T. klauberi, T. nelsoni, T. ornata (syn. T. whitneyi, T. longinsulae), T. parornata, T. putnami (syn. T. antipex, T. canaliculata, T. formosa, T. llanensis), T. singletoni
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1820 | Terrapene Merrem |
1835 | Cistudo Dumeril and Bibron |
1870 | Cistudo Cope p. 126 |
1875 | Cistudo Cope p. 53 |
1877 | Cistudo marnochii Cope p. 229 |
1889 | Toxaspis Cope |
1902 | Terrapene Hay p. 449 |
1902 | Terrapene marnochii Hay p. 449 |
1908 | Terrapene marnochi Hay |
1920 | Terrapene bulverda Hay p. 133 figs. Fig. 4; Plate 10, fig. 1. |
1924 | Terrapene impressa Hay |
1930 | Terrapene Hay p. 98 |
1930 | Terrapene bulverda Hay p. 98 |
1930 | Terrapene impressa Hay p. 99 |
1930 | Terrapene marnochii Hay p. 99 |
1956 | Terrapene marnochi Milstead p. 167 |
1964 | Terrapene hibernaculum Kuhn |
1975 | Terrapene Bickham p. 203 |
1985 | Terrapene Holman |
1988 | Terrapene Carroll |
1995 | Terrapene Parris and Daeschler p. 564 |
1996 | Terrapene Frank and Ramus |
2002 | Terrapene Holman p. 440 |
2014 | Terrapene van Dijk et al. |
2018 | Terrapene Vlachos |
2019 | Terrapene May |
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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. Terrapene Merrem 1820 [box turtle]
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Terrapene carolina Linnaeus 1758 [common box turtle]
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Testudo carolina bauri Taylor 1894 [Florida box turtle]
Testudo carolina carolina Linnaeus 1758 [Eastern box turtle]
†Testudo carolina longinsulae Hay 1908
Testudo carolina major Agassiz 1857 [Gulf Coast box turtle]
Testudo carolina triunguis Agassiz 1857 [three-toed box turtle]
Invalid names: Terrapene innoxia Hay 1916 [synonym]
Terrapene coahuila Schmidt and Owens 1944
†Terrapene corneri Holman and Fritz 2005
†Terrapene impensa Hay 1924
Terrapene klauberi Bogert 1943
Terrapene nelsoni Stejneger 1925
Terrapene ornata Agassiz 1857 [Western box turtle]
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Invalid names: Terrapene longinsulae Hay 1909 [synonym], Terrapene whitneyi Hay 1916 [synonym]
†Terrapene parornata Joyce et al. 2012
†Terrapene putnami Hay 1906 [box turtle]
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Invalid names: Terrapene antipex Hay 1916 [synonym], Terrapene canaliculata Hay 1907 [synonym], Terrapene llanensis Oelrich 1953 [synonym]
†Terrapene singletoni Gilmore 1927
Invalid names: Cistudo Dumeril and Bibron 1835 [synonym], Cistudo marnochii Cope 1877 [nomen dubium], Terrapene bulverda Hay 1920 [nomen dubium], Terrapene hibernaculum Kuhn 1964 [nomen nudum], Terrapene impressa Hay 1924 [nomen dubium], Toxaspis Cope 1889 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available