Testudines
- Dataset
- A tentative species list of the European herpetofauna (Amphibia and Reptilia) — an update
- Rank
- ORDER
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
description
Spinks and Shaffer (2009) performed a phylogenetic study of the genus Emys based on multiple genes, both mtDNA and nuclear. There is generally no reciprocal monophyly between Emys orbicularis (European Pond Terrapin) and E. trinacris (Sicilian Pond Terrapin) in their trees based on nuclear genes, providing additional substantiation for rejection of the latter taxon at species level (Speybroeck and Crochet 2007). Fritz et al. (2009) investigated the mitochondrial phylogeography of the Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca) from the western parts of the Mediterranean, and recognised T. g. nabeulensis as a valid subspecies for the Tunisian populations, with Sardinian and Sicilian animals belonging to this taxon. In this arrangement, Majorcan and Spanish populations remain treated as T. g. graeca.
Name
- Homonyms
- Testudines