10.5061/DRYAD.288FT
Petzold, Alice
Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109
Dresden, Germany
Vargas-Ramírez, Mario
Bayworld Centre for Research and Education
Kehlmaier, Christian
Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109
Dresden, Germany
Vamberger, Melita
Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109
Dresden, Germany
Branch, William R.
Bayworld Centre for Research and Education
Du Preez, Louis
North-West University
Hofmeyr, Margaretha D.
University of the Western Cape
Meyer, Leon
North-West University
Schleicher, Alfred
P.O. Box 30566, Windhoek, Namibia
Široký, Pavel
University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Fritz, Uwe
Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109
Dresden, Germany
Data from: A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines:
Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species
Dryad
dataset
2015
Pelomedusa schweinfurthi sp. nov.
Pelomedusa olivacea
Pelomedusa variabilis sp. nov.
Pelomedusa galeata
Pelomedusa
Pelomedusa barbata sp. nov.
revision
Pelomedusa neumanni sp. nov.
nomenclature
Pelomedusa somalica sp. nov.
Pelomedusa kobe sp. nov.
species description
Reptilia
Pelomedusa gehafie
Holocene
Pelusios
Pelomedusa subrufa
2015-04-10T00:00:00Z
2015-04-10T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3795.5.2
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Using nearly range-wide sampling, we analyze up to 1848 bp of
mitochondrial DNA of 183 helmeted terrapins and identify a minimum of 12
deeply divergent species-level clades. Uncorrected p distances of these
clades equal or clearly exceed those between the currently recognized
species of Pelusios, the genus most closely related to Pelomedusa. We
correlate genetic discontinuities of Pelomedusa with data on morphology
and endoparasites and describe six new Pelomedusa species. Moreover, we
restrict the name Pelomedusa subrufa (Bonnaterre, 1789) to one genetic
lineage and resurrect three further species from its synonymy, namely P.
galeata (Schoepff, 1792), P. gehafie (Rüppell, 1835), and P. olivacea
(Schweigger, 1812). In addition to these ten Pelomedusa species, we
identify two further clades from Cameroon and Sudan with similar levels of
genetic divergence that remain unnamed candidate species. We also note
that some problematical terrapins from South Africa and Somalia may
represent two additional candidate species. Some of the Pelomedusa species
are morphologically distinctive, whilst others can only be identified by
molecular markers and are therefore morphologically cryptic taxa.
Pelomedusa_Supporting-Information_Reference_AlignmentREFERENCE ALIGNMENT.
12S rRNA sequences (fasta format) for Pelomedusa
species.Pelomedusa_Supporting-Information_Table_S1TABLE S1. Used samples,
GenBank sequences and their accession numbers. Mitochondrial lineages
sensu Vargas-Ramírez et al. (2010) and Fritz et al. (2014)
indicated.Supporting-Information_Table_S1.xlsPelomedusa_Supporting-Information_Table_S2TABLE S2. Evolutionary models selected by the Bayesian Information Criterion in PARTITIONFINDER (Lanfear et al. 2012).
Arabian Peninsula
Africa
Madagascar