Emys

Emys
European pond turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Emydidae
Subfamily:	Emydinae
Genus:	Emys A.M.C. Duméril, 1805[1]
Key:   Range of Emys trinacris.   Range of Emys blandingii.   Range of Emys orbicularis.   Range of Actinemys marmorata]] (formerly Emys marmorata.

Emys is a small genus of turtles in the family Emydidae. The genus (sensu lato) is endemic to Europe and North America.

Species[]

The following two or three species may be assigned to the genus Emys (sensu lato).^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758)	European pond turtle[3]	Western Palaearctic
	Emys trinacris et al., 2005	Sicilian pond turtle[3][4]	Sicily.
	Emys blandingii (Holbrook, 1838)	Blanding's turtle (disputed may belong in the genus Emydoidea)[3][5]	central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Emys.

Taxonomy[]

The eastern North American species, E. blandingii, is usually separated into its own genus, Emydoidea but this is disputed by some. Similarly, the western North American species, E. marmorata and E. pallida, were recently moved to their own genus, Actinemys.^[6]

References[]

Bibliography

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF). Archived from the original (pdf) on 2010-12-15. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.

Further reading[]

• Duméril AMC (1805). Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile a l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Paris: Allais. (H.L. Perronneau, printer). xxxiii + 544 pp. (Emys, new genus, pp. 76–77). (in French).