European Pond Turtle
Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledApoarmatu istilzale (eus) · Balinis vėžlys (lit) · Baot-dour gwern (bre) · Benekli Kaplumbağa (tur) · Cistude (fra) · Cistude d'Europe (fra) · Cistude d'Europe (La) (fra) · Cágado de Carapaça Estriada (por) · Cágado-de-carapaça-estriada (por) · Emys orbicularis (srp) · Euroopa sookilpkonn (est) · Europaeische Sumpfschildkroete (deu) · Europese moerasschildpad (nld) · Europese moerrasschildpad (nld)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Figs 13, 125 (Engl. European Marsh Turtle; Geo. ჭაობის კუ, chaobis ku)
An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia with DNA Barcoding Data and Taxonomic Remarks
discussion
The European Pond Terrapin was first reported on Lefkada by De Betta (1868: 892). Lehrs (1912: 449) found it “ at several places ”. Fritz (1992: 75) examined two old museum specimens. Unexpectedly, recent records are missing both in literature and on the web. We observed at least 15 basking individuals along a stretch of the Maranthochori lake shore (17 / 5 / 2019; Fig. 2 C) and two individuals in a small channel north of Vasiliki (25 / 5 / 2019).
Annotated checklist of the herpetofauna (Amphibia, Reptilia) of Lefkada Island (Ionian Islands, Greece)
materials_examined
Holotype: Not located; illustrated in the original description (Pl. I).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
materials_examined
Holotype: Not located. Testudo pulchella Schoepff 1801: 113 Syntypes (at least 2): Not located; two syntypes illustrated in the original description (Pl. XXVI). Emys turfa t Meyer 1835: 67 Syntypes (number uncertain): Not located; possibly in the SMNS (Kurek 1917). Clemmys schlotheimii t Fitzinger 1835: 127 Syntypes (number uncertain): apparently MGN 1995 (multiple specimens), and 1672; MGN 1672 designated as lectotype by Karl & Paust (2014: 156) and illustrated in the original description (Pl. 4, Fig. 4). Trionyx schlotheimii t Fitzinger 1835: 128 Syntypes (number uncertain): apparently MGN 1995 (multiple specimens), and 1673; MGN 1673 designated as lectotype by Karl & Paust (2014: 156) and illustrated in the original description (Pl. 4, Fig. 1, 3). Emys lutaria borealis t Nilsson 1841: 208 Syntypes (2): NRM CU 75037 and 75039 (formerly R 1743 - 44); illustrated in Dalmon (1820: Pl. VI – VII), and in the original description (Pl. III – IV); see also Kurck (1917) and Sommer et al. (2009).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
In the stacks
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8909809.