Siebenrockiella
Appearance
Siebenrockiella | |
---|---|
The critically endangered Siebenrockiella leytensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Geoemydidae |
Subfamily: | Geoemydinae |
Genus: | Siebenrockiella Lindholm, 1929[1] |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
|
Siebenrockiella is a small genus of black marsh turtles. It used to be monotypic but now has two species with the addition of the Philippine forest turtle (moved from the genus Heosemys). The genus was originally erected in 1869 by John Edward Gray under the name Bellia, commemorating Thomas Bell,[2] but this name is a junior homonym of Bellia Milne-Edwards, 1848, a crustacean genus.[3] The replacement name, Siebenrockiella, was published in 1929 by Wassili Adolfovitch Lindholm, and commemorates Friedrich Siebenrock.[4]
Species
[edit]- Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831) – black marsh turtle
- Siebenrockiella leytensis (Taylor, 1920) – Philippine forest turtle
References
[edit]- ^ "Siebenrockiella Lindholm, 1929". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Małgosia Nowak-Kemp & Uwe Fritz (2010). "Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford University Museum" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2604: 1–19.
- ^ "Siebenrockiella (black marsh turtles)". EMYSystem. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ Peter Uetz, Jakob Hallermann & Jiri Hosek. "Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray, 1831)". The Reptile Database. Retrieved July 29, 2011.