Turkana mud turtle

Turkana mud turtle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Pelomedusidae
Genus: Pelusios
Species:
P. broadleyi
Binomial name
Pelusios broadleyi
Bour, 1986
Synonyms[3]
  • Pelusios broadleyi
    Bour, 1986
  • Pelusios broadlyi
    Wood, 2006 (ex errore)
  • Pelusios broadleyi
    — Livigni, 2013[2]

Pelusios broadleyi, commonly known as the Turkana mud turtle, Broadley's mud turtle,[2] or the Lake Turkana hinged terrapin,[4] is a species of turtle in the family Pelomedusidae. The species is native to eastern Africa.

Geographic range

Pelusios broadleyi is endemic to Lake Turkana in East Africa. It has only been confirmed from the Kenyan part of this lake, but may well occur in the Ethiopian (it has been recorded very close to the border).[5]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. broadleyi is freshwater wetlands.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, broadleyi, is in honor of herpetologist Donald G. Broadley.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Conservation Group (1996). "Pelusios broadleyi (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: https://dx.doi.org/10.1305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16529A6000514.en. Downloaded on 04 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Species Pelusios broadleyi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter. (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 346. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
  4. ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pelusios broadleyi, p. 39).
  5. ^ Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Iverson, John B.; Bour, Roger; Fritz, Uwe; Georges, Arthur; Shaffer, H. Bradley; van Dijk, Peter Paul; et al. (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group) (August 3, 2017). Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; van Dijk, P.P.; Saumure, R.A.; Buhlmann, K.A.; Pritchard, P.C.H.; Mittermeier, R.A. (eds.). "Turtles of the world, 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status(8th Ed.)" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. 7 (8 ed.): 1–292. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. Retrieved October 4, 2019.

Further reading

  • Bour R (1986). "Note sur Pelusios adansonii (Schweigger, 1812) et sur une nouvelle espèce affine du Kenya (Chelonii, Pelomedusidae)". Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, Studia Palaeocheloniologica 2 (2): 23–54. (Pelusios broadleyi, new species). (in French).
  • Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Pelusios broadleyi, p. 54).