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Mesoclemmys
Genus of turtles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mesoclemmys is a genus of South American turtles in the family Chelidae.
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Species
Species include:
- Mesoclemmys dahli (Zangerl & Medem, 1958) – Dahl's toad-headed turtle[5]
- Mesoclemmys gibba (Schweigger, 1812) – Gibba turtle[6]
- Mesoclemmys heliostemma (McCord, Joseph-Ouni & Lamar, 2001)[4]
- Mesoclemmys jurutiensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro & Vogt, 2021[7]
- Mesoclemmys nasuta (Schweigger, 1812)[6]
- Mesoclemmys perplexa Bour & Zaher, 2005[8]
- Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856) – Amazon toad-headed turtle[9]
- Mesoclemmys sabiniparaensis Cunha, Sampaio, Carneiro, Vogt, Mittermeier, Rhodin & Andrade, 2022[10]
- Mesoclemmys tuberculata (Luederwaldt, 1926) – Tuberculate toad-headed turtle[11]
- Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973) – Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle[12]
- Mesoclemmys zuliae (Pritchard & Trebbau, 1984) – Zulia toad-headed turtle[13]
- †Mesoclemmys vanegasorum (Cadena et al., 2020) – La Victoria Formation, Laventan Colombia[14]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mesoclemmys.
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References
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