Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification patterns of side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Pleurodires or side-necked turtles are today restricted to freshwater environments of South America, Africa–Madagascar and Australia, but in the past they were distributed much more broadly, being found also on Eurasia, India and North America, and ...
Max Langer +2 more
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Classification of pleurodire polystomes (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) revisited with the description of two new genera from the Australian and Neotropical Realms [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 Polystomatids are platyhelminth parasites that infect mostly amphibian and chelonian hosts. Polystomatid of testudines were, for more than seven decades, classified in the three genera – Neopolystoma Price, 1939, Polystomoides Ward, 1917 and ...
Louis Heyns du Preez +2 more
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Paraharmotrema karinganiense n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Liolopidae) infecting the intestine of serrated hinged terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus), east African black mud turtle (Pelusios subniger), and South African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa galeata) and a phylogenetic hypothesis for liolopid genera [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 We herein describe Paraharmotrema karinganiense n. gen., n. sp. Dutton & Bullard (Liolopidae Dollfus, 1934) from specimens infecting the intestine of the serrated hinged terrapin (Pelusios sinuatus), east African black mud turtle (Pelusios subniger) (
Haley R. Dutton +3 more
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An early bothremydid from the Arlington Archosaur Site of Texas [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Four turtle taxa are previously documented from the Cenomanian Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS) of the Lewisville Formation (Woodbine Group) in Texas. Herein, we describe a new side-necked turtle (Pleurodira), Pleurochayah appalachius gen. et sp.
Brent Adrian +3 more
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The complete mitochondrion genome of the Hoge’s Side-necked turtle Ranacephala hogei (Chelidae), a critically endangered species from South America [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular BiologyThe Hogei’s side-necked turtle, Ranacephala hogei, an endemic species of the Southern Paraíba basin, is the most endangered species of chelonians in Brazil. Here, we sequenced, assembled and described the complete mitogenome for R. hogei.
Ana Teresa Dumans +7 more
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A taxonomic reassessment of Piramys auffenbergi, a neglected turtle from the late Miocene of Piram Island, Gujarat, India [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Piramys auffenbergi was described as an emydine turtle based on a well-preserved skull retrieved from late Miocene deposits exposed on Piram Island, India.
Gabriel S. Ferreira +2 more
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Deep time perspective on turtle neck evolution: chasing the Hox code by vertebral morphology [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 The unparalleled ability of turtle neck retraction is possible in three different modes, which characterize stem turtles, living side-necked (Pleurodira), and hidden-necked (Cryptodira) turtles, respectively.
Christine Böhmer, Ingmar Werneburg
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An early bothremydid (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Utah, North America [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Background Bothremydidae is a clade of extinct pleurodiran turtles known from the Cretaceous to Paleogene of Africa, Europe, India, Madagascar, and North and South America.
Walter G. Joyce +2 more
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Diversity, 2023 Pleurodira represent one of the two clades that compose the crown Testudines, and their temporal range is Late Jurassic–present. However, knowledge about the neuroanatomy of extinct pleurodires is still very limited.
Marcos Martín-Jiménez +1 more
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The Ornamented Shell of a New Bothremydid Turtle from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Niger
Diversity, 2023 A new pleurodiran turtle is described here. It is identified as attributable to Bothremydidae. The new taxon comes from an upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) outcrop located in Southwestern Niger (in the Indamane Mount area, belonging to the Abalak ...
Adán Pérez-García
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