Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Alternative combination: Testudo orbicularis
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Emys according to D. Zoboli et al. 2022
See also Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Hay 1902, Linnaeus 1766, Lydekker 1889, Mlynarski 1984, Schleich 1980, Swinton 1934, van Dijk et al. 2014, Vlachos 2021 and Vlachos and Delfino 2016
Sister taxa: Emys cuvieri, Emys dhongoka, Emys hordwellensis, Emys kachuga, Emys lucii, Emys marmorata, Emys namadicus, Emys sigriz, Emys sinensis, Emys trinacris, Emys vulgaris, Emys wermuthi, Emys wyomingensis
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (6), Germany (5), Greece (11), Hungary (1), Italy (4), Malta (1), Monaco (1), the Netherlands (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (4), Spain (5), the United Kingdom (12), United States (1: Sussex)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Poland (2), Slovakia (3)
Total: 63 collections including 64 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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