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Genus of turtles
Chelydra is one of the two
extant
genera of the snapping turtle family,
Chelydridae , the other being
Macrochelys , the much larger
alligator snapping turtle .
[1] The snapping turtles are native to the Americas, with Chelydra having three
species , one in
North America and two in
Central America , one of which is also found in northwestern
South America .
Species
The genus Chelydra has the following species:
[1]
[2]
The three extant Chelydra species were once all considered to be several subspecies of Chelydra serpentina , along with a fourth subspecies in Florida, Chelydra serpentina osceola
[3] . C. s. osceola is now considered to be synonymous with C. serpentina.
[1]
References
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g Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Inverson, John B.; Roger, Bour; Fritz, Uwe; Georges, Arthur; Shaffer, H. Bradley; van Dijk, Peter Paul (August 3, 2017).
"Turtles of the world, 2050 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status(8th Ed.)" (PDF) . Chelonian Research Monographs . 7 .
ISBN
978-1-5323-5026-9 . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
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d 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.; van Dijk, P.P.; et al. (Turtle Extinctions Working Group) (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.
doi :
10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015 .
hdl :
11336/62240 .
^ Phillips, Christopher A.; Dimmick, Walter W.; Carr, John L. (April 1996).
"Conservation Genetics of the Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)" . Conservation Biology . 10 (2): 397–405.
Bibcode :
1996ConBi..10..397P .
doi :
10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10020397.x .
ISSN
0888-8892 .