Testudo Linnaeus 1758 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Synonym: Pseudotestudo Loveridge and Williams 1957

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

Parent taxon: Testudinini according to A. Perez-Garcia et al. 2022

See also Andrews 1906, Böhme 2008, Brinkman et al. 2008, Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, Carroll 1988, Chkhikvadze 1973, Cope 1875, Cope 1884, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Frank and Ramus 1996, Galbreath 1953, Garcia et al. 2016, Gilmore 1915, Gilmore 1931, Gilmore 1934, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Kotsakis 1977, Lambe 1908, Leidy 1860, Leidy 1873, Lydekker 1889, Quenstedt 1882, Staesche et al. 2007, Swingland and Klemens 1989, van Dijk et al. 2014, Vlachos 2018, Vlachos 2021, Vlachos and Delfino 2016, Vlachos et al. 2019, Vlachos et al. 2015, Vlachos and Rabi 2018, Vlachos and Tsoukala 2014, Vlachos and Tsoukala 2016 and Yeh 1963

Sister taxa: Acinixys, Chersine

Subtaxa: Testudo (Chersine) Testudo (Stylemys) Testudo amberiacensis Testudo amiatae Testudo antakyensis Testudo antiqua Testudo atlas Testudo bosporica Testudo brevitesta Testudo brontops Testudo carinata Testudo cautleyi Testudo cernovi Testudo changshanensis Testudo chienfutungensis Testudo costarricensis Testudo craverii Testudo denizoti Testudo despotti Testudo emys Testudo escheri Testudo eurysternum Testudo floweri Testudo geometrica Testudo globosa Testudo graeca Testudo hellenica Testudo hermanni Testudo hexagonata Testudo hipparionum Testudo honanensis Testudo houzei Testudo hypercostata Testudo hypselonota Testudo ibera Testudo indica Testudo kalksburgensis Testudo kenitrensis Testudo kleinmanni Testudo lamanonii Testudo larteti Testudo lohanica Testudo lunanensis Testudo lutaria Testudo margae Testudo marginata Testudo marmorum Testudo nanus Testudo neraudii Testudo oughlamensis Testudo pecorinii Testudo phosphoritarum Testudo promarginata Testudo pusilla Testudo scabra Testudo shansiensis Testudo sharanensis Testudo shensiensis Testudo shilouensis Testudo sloanei Testudo sphaerica Testudo steinheimensis Testudo tarakliensis Testudo terrestris Testudo tunhuanensis Testudo ulanensis Testudo weissingeri Testudo yunnanensis

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Type: Testudo graeca

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Bulgaria (1), China (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Croatia (1), France (8), Georgia (1), Greece (22), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Israel (5), Italy (9), Malta (2), Mauritius (1), Morocco (4), Portugal (1), South Africa (2), Spain (28), Sudan (2), United States (4: Florida, Texas)

• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1), Greece (2), Italy (1), South Africa (3)

• Pliocene of China (1), France (3), Greece (8), Hungary (3), Italy (2), Japan (1), Moldova (1), Morocco (3), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (1)

• MN 13 of Turkey (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Kansas)

• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1), Greece (3), South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Austria (5), Bulgaria (5), China (13), the Czech Republic (5), France (21), Germany (41), Greece (12), Italy (7), Kazakhstan (1), Kenya (1), Lebanon (1), Moldova (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (6), Switzerland (3), Turkey (12), Ukraine (3), United States (3: Nebraska, Texas)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Costa Rica (1), France (1)

• Oligocene of China (1), France (6), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of France (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), China (3), France (1), Mongolia (1), United States (2: California, South Dakota)

Total: 311 collections including 336 occurrences

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