Taxonavigation

Superfamilia: Chelydroidea
Familia: Chelydridae
Genus: Chelydra
Species: Chelydra serpentina

Name

• Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Type locality: “in Calidis regionibus”
  • Holotype: USNM. USNM 10369 (C. oceola)

Synonyms

• Testudo serpentina Linnaeus 1758:199 (original combination)
  • Testudo serpentaria Wiedemann 1802 (nom. subst. pro T. serpentina L.)
  • Chelydra serpentina Schweigger 1812
  • Chelydra lacertina Schweigger 1812
  • Chelonura serpentina Say 1824:206
  • Testudo longicauda Shaw 1831 (nomen nudum)
  • Emysaura serpentina Duméril & Bibron 1835: 350
  • Chelydra emarginata Agassiz 1857
  • Macroclemys lacertina Rhoads 1895:381
  • Devisia mythodes Ogilby 1905
  • Macrochelys lacertina Largelamb 1907
  • Chelydra serpentina serpentina Stejneger 1914
  • Chelydra serpentina osceola Stejneger 1918:89
  • Chelydra osceola Stejneger 1918:89
  • Chelydra serpentina osceola Mertens 1934
  • Chelydra serpentina Stebbins 1985:97
  • Chelydra serpentina Conant & Collins 1991:41
  • Chelydra serpentina serpentina Crother 2000
  • Chelydra serpentina osceola Crother 2000
  • Chelydra serpentina TTWG 2014, 2017.

References

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 

• Schweigger, A. F. 1812. Prodromus monographiae Cheloniorum. Königsberger Archiv für Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik 1:271–368, 406–462. download
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp  DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 : 199.
• IUCN: Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Least Concern)

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

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