Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chelidoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Division: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Infraordo: Pan-Pleurodira Subordo: Pleurodira Superfamilia: Chelidoidea

Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973:184)
- Type locality: “les environs d’Asunción au Paraguay”; restricted to “Tobati, La Cordillera, Paraguay” by Bour & Pauler 1987.
- Holotype: MNHN 1977.50
  - This species is also the type species of the genus Bufocephala a junior synonym of the genus Mesoclemmys (McCord, Joseph-Ouni & Lamar 2001)

Phrynops schopfii “Fitzinger” Diering (nomen nudum)
Phrynops paraguayensis “Vanzolini” Donoso-Barros (nomen nudum)
Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei Bour 1973:184
- Phrynops vanderhaegei - Pritchard 1979
- Phrynops (Batrachemys) vanderhaegei Alderton 1988
- Bufocephala vanderhaegei McCord, Joseph-Ouni & Lamar 2001
- Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei Bour & Zaher 2005

Bour, R. 1973. Contribution a la connaissance de Phrynops nasutus (Schweigger: 1812) et Phrynops tuberculatus (Luederwaldt: 1926). Description d'une nouvelle sous-espèce originaire du Paraguay, Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei (Testudinata - Pleurodira - Chelidae). Bull. Soc. Zool. France 98: 175–190.

McCord, W., Joseph-Ouni, M. & Lamar, W. 2001. A Taxonomic Reevaluation of Phrynops (Testudines: Chelidae) with the description of two new genera and a new species of Batrachemys. Revista de Biología Tropical. 49(2):715–764. download

Bour, R. & Zaher, H. 2005: A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae). Papéis avulsos de zoologia, 45(24): 295–311. DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492005002400001 Reference page.

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page.

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