Manouria
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Manouria emys | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Testudinidae |
Genus: | Manouria Gray, 1854 |
Manouria is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. The genus was erected by John Edward Gray in 1854.
Species[]
The following five species are recognized as being valid, two of which are extant,[1] and three of which are extinct:
- Manouria emys (Schlegel & S. Müller, 1844) – Asian forest tortoise
- Manouria impressa (Günther, 1882) – impressed tortoise
- † Karl & Staesche, 2007 – a giant land tortoise from Luzon Island, Philippines[2][3] however, Rhodin et al. (2015) transferred this species to the genus Megalochelys.[4]
- † (Lydekker, 1889) – a fossil tortoise from Siwaliks, India[4]
- † Takahashi, Otsuka & Hirayama , 2003 – a fossil tortoise from Ryukyu Islands, Japan[4]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Manouria.
References[]
- ^ "Manouria". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Karl, Hans-Volker; Staesche, Ulrich (2007). "Fossile Riesen-Landschildkröten von den Philippinen und ihre paläogeographische Bedeutung [= Fossil Giant Land Tortoises from the Philippines and their paleogeographic importance]". Geologischesahrbuch A 160: 171–197. (Manouria sondaari, new species). (in German with abstract in English).
- ^ Staesche, Ulrich (coordinator) (2007). Fossile Schildkröten aus vier Ländern in drei Kontinenten: Deutschland, Türkei, Niger, Philippen [= Fossil Turtles from Four Countries on Three Continents: Germany, Turkey, Niger, and the Philippines]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B, Heft 98 [= Series B, Issue 98]. 197 pp. ISBN 978-3-510-95967-9. http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/artno/186029800 (in German).
- ^ a b c Anders G.J. Rhodin; Scott Thomson; Georgios L. Georgalis; Hans-Volker Karl; Igor G. Danilov; Akio Takahashi; Marcelo S. de la Fuente; Jason R. Bourque; Massimo Delfino; Roger Bour; John B. Iverson; H. Bradley Shaffer; Peter Paul van Dijk (2015). "Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (8): 000e.1–66. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015.
Further reading[]
- Gray, J. E. (1854). "Description of a New Genus and some New Species of Tortoises". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1852: 133–135. (Manouria, new genus, p. 133).
Categories:
- Manouria
- Turtle genera
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Turtle stubs