Manouria

Genus of tortoises

Manouria
Manouria emys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Manouria
Gray, 1854

Manouria is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. The genus was erected by John Edward Gray in 1854.

Species

The following five species are recognized as being valid, two of which are extant,[1] and three of which are extinct:

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Asian forest tortoise Manouria emys (Schlegel & S. Müller, 1844) Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
impressed tortoise Manouria impressa (Günther, 1882) Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Northeast India.
  • Manouria sondaari Karl & Staesche, 2007 – a giant land tortoise from Luzon Island, Philippines[2][3] however, Rhodin et al. (2015) transferred this species to the genus Megalochelys.[4]
  • Manouria punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1889) – a fossil tortoise from Siwaliks, India[4]
  • Manouria oyamai Takahashi, Otsuka & Hirayama , 2003 – a fossil tortoise from Ryukyu Islands, Japan[4]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Manouria.

References

  1. ^ "Manouria". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ Karl, Hans-Volker; Staesche, Ulrich (2007). "Fossile Riesen-Landschildkröten von den Philippinen und ihre paläogeographische Bedeutung [= Fossil Giant Land Tortoises from the Philippines and their paleogeographic importance]". Geologischesahrbuch A 160: 171–197. (Manouria sondaari, new species). (in German with abstract in English).
  3. ^ Staesche, Ulrich (coordinator) (2007). Fossile Schildkröten aus vier Ländern in drei Kontinenten: Deutschland, Türkei, Niger, Philippen [= Fossil Turtles from Four Countries on Three Continents: Germany, Turkey, Niger, and the Philippines]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B, Heft 98 [= Series B, Issue 98]. 197 pp. ISBN 978-3-510-95967-9. http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/artno/186029800 (in German).
  4. ^ a b c Anders G.J. Rhodin; Scott Thomson; Georgios L. Georgalis; Hans-Volker Karl; Igor G. Danilov; Akio Takahashi; Marcelo S. de la Fuente; Jason R. Bourque; Massimo Delfino; Roger Bour; John B. Iverson; H. Bradley Shaffer; Peter Paul van Dijk (2015). "Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (8): 000e.1–66. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015.

Further reading

  • Gray, J. E. (1854). "Description of a New Genus and some New Species of Tortoises". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1852: 133–135. (Manouria, new genus, p. 133).
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Tortoise family
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Species of the tortoise family
AgrionemysAldabrachelysAstrochelysCentrochelysChelonoidis
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Chelonoidis complex
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  • †Cheirogaster bacharidisi
  • †Cheirogaster gymnesica
  • †Cheirogaster schafferi
ChersinaChersobiusCylindraspisGeocheloneGopherus†Hadrianus
  • †Hadrianus corsoni
  • †Hadrianus majusculus
  • †Hadrianus octonaria
  • †Hadrianus robustus
  • †Hadrianus schucherti
  • †Hadrianus utahensis
  • †Hadrianus vialovi
HesperotestudoHomopusIndotestudoKinixysMalacochersusManouriaMegalochelysPsammobatesPyxisStigmochelysStylemys
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  • †Stylemys calaverensis
  • †Stylemys canetotiana
  • †Stylemys capax
  • †Stylemys conspecta
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  • †Stylemys emiliae
  • †Stylemys frizaciana
  • †Stylemys karakolensis
  • †Stylemys nebrascensis
  • †Stylemys neglectus
  • †Stylemys oregonensis
  • †Stylemys pygmea
  • †Stylemys uintensis
  • †Stylemys undabuna
Testudo
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. Key: †=extinct.
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Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
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Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
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Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 
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Manouria


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