Trionychidae

Apalone spinifera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trionychoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Trionychoidea

Familia: Trionychidae
Subfamiliae (3): Cyclanorbinae – Plastomeninae – Trionychinae

Overview of genera (26)

Cyclanorbinae: Cyclanorbis – Cycloderma – Lissemys – † Nemegtemys

Plastomeninae: † Atoposemys – † Heloplanoplia – † Hutchemys – † Plastomenus

Trionychinae: Amyda – Apalone – Chitra – Dogania – Nilssonia – Palea – Pelochelys – Pelodiscus – † Petrochelys – Rafetus – Trionyx

Stem Trionychids: † Axestemys – † Drazinderetes – † Gilmoremys – † Gobiapalone – † Khunnuchelys – † Kuhnemys – † Murgonemys – † Perochelys

Name

• Trionychidae Fitzinger, 1826

Note:

Plastomenidae used as subfamily to reconcile Paleo and Living taxa taxonomy. One is using Phylocode the other ICZN system. Higher order reconciliation necessary. Unassigned basal taxa will need to be assigned at a later date the basal Trionychids are highly unresolved.

References

• Turtle Extinctions Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., de la Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino, M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 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. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. Download
• Georges, A.; Thomson, S. 2010: Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1–37. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• TTWG (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group) 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8: 1–472. DOI: 10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021.PDF Reference page. 
• Georgalis, G. & Joyce, W.G. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Old World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):115–208.
• Vitek, N.S. & Joyce, W.G. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of New World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(2):185–244.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Weichschildkröten
English: Soft-shelled Turtles
日本語: スッポン科
한국어: 자라과
Nederlands: Weekschildpadden
русский: Трёхкоготные черепахи
ไทย: ตะพาบ, ตะพาบน้ำ
Türkçe: Dudaklı kaplumbağagiller

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