Pelomedusa subrufa (Bonnaterre, 1789)

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 121

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scientific name	Pelomedusa subrufa (Bonnaterre, 1789)
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Pelomedusa subrufa (Bonnaterre, 1789) View in CoL

Marsh Terrapin

Material: NB780 (35); photographic record (M. Finckh, site 43).

Comment: This species is widespread in southern, eastern, and western Africa ( Branch 2012; Turtle Taxonomy Working Group 2017). It has been recorded from several localities in Angola ( Marques et al. 2018), and recently from BNP ( Butler et al. 2019). Petzold et al. (2014) recorded unexpected species diversity in a molecular phylogeny of Pelomedusa and referred northern Namibian material to P. subrufa .

References

Branch B. 2012. Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles of Africa. Random House Struik, Cape Town, South Africa. 128 p.

Butler BO, Ceriaco LPM, Marques MP, Bandeira S, Julio T, Heinicke MP, Bauer AM. 2019. Herpetological survey of Huila Province, southwest Angola, including first records from Bicuar National Park. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 225 - 240.

Marques MP, Ceriaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM. 2018. Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola: atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840 - 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 65 (Supplement II): 1 - 501.

Petzold A, Vargas-Ramirez M, Kehlmaier C, Vamberger M, Branch WR, du Preez L, Hofmeyr MD, Meyer L, Schleicher A, Siroky P, et al. 2014. Diagnoses for African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3795 (5): 523 - 548.

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Fritz BR, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP.] 2017. Turtles of the world: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status (8 th edition). In: Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Editors, Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Pritchard PCH, Mittermeier RA. Chelonian Research Monographs 7. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 292 p.