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Emydinae

Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae

Taxonomy
Emydinae was named by Rafinesque (1815). It is extant. Its type is Emys. It was considered monophyletic by Bickham (1975).

It was reranked as the tribe Emydinae by Perrier (1928).

It was assigned to Trionychidae by Lydekker (1889); to Testudinidae by Perrier (1928), Estes (1964), Estes and Tihen (1964), Kuhn (1966), Melentis (1966) and Estes and Berberian (1970); and to Emydidae by Bickham (1975), Ernst and Barbour (1989), Holman (2002), van Dijk et al. (2014) and Bourque (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Emydinae Rafinesque
1889Emydinae Lydekker p. 22
1928Emydinae Perrier p. 3113
1964Emydinae Estes p. 99
1964Emydinae Estes and Tihen p. 464
1966Emydinae Kuhn p. 26
1966Emydinae Melentis
1970Emydinae Estes and Berberian p. 5
1975Emydinae Bickham p. 201
1989Emydinae Ernst and Barbour p. 136
2002Emydinae Holman p. 439
2014Emydinae van Dijk et al.
2016Emydinae Bourque

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
Pantestudinoidea
superfamilyTestudinoidea
familyEmydidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyEmydinaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyEmydinaeRafinesque 1815

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.

Subfm. Emydinae Rafinesque 1815
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G. Actinemys Agassiz 1857
G. Clemmys Ritgen 1828
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Clemmys gaudryi Depéret 1885
Clemmys guttata Schneider 1792
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Invalid names: Clemmys punctata Schoepff 1792 [synonym]
Clemmys schansiensis Ping 1932
Clemmys ukoi Bachmayer 1957
G. Emyda Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Emyda vittata Peters 1854
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Invalid names: Emyda ceylonensis Gray 1855 [synonym]
G. †Wilburemys Martin and Mallory 2011
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Wilburemys yakimensis Martin and Mallory 2011
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. Perrier 1928Espèces aquatiques (Tortues d'eau douce).