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Emydoidea

Description

Blanding's turtle (Emys blandingii or Emydoidea blandingii) is a semi-aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae. This species is native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States. It is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of its range. Blanding's turtles are of interest in longevity research, as they show little to no common signs of aging and are physically active and capable of reproduction into eight or nine decades of life.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)2442884https://www.gbif.org/species/2442884
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)37722https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37722
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Emydoidea
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
-Testudinata
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodiraCope 1868
-PantestudinoideaJoyce et al. 2004
superfamilyTestudinoideaGray 1825
-PanemydidaeJoyce et al. 2004
familyEmydidaeRafinesque 1815
genusEmydoideaGray 1870
Common NameBlanding's turtle
Scientific NameEmydoidea Gray, 1870
Name Published InSuppl. Cat. Shield Rept.
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Emydoideagenusbelongs to Emydinaestated with evidenceBickham, 1975
Emydoideagenusbelongs to EmydidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Emydoideagenusbelongs to Emydinaestated without evidenceErnst and Barbour, 1989
Emydoideagenusbelongs to Emydidaestated without evidenceParris and Daeschler, 1995
Emydoideagenusbelongs to Emydinaestated without evidenceHolman, 2002
Emydoideagenusbelongs to Emydidaestated with evidenceVlachos, 2018
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
Extant Size (PBDB)2 (100%)
First Recorded Appearance10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene
Environmentfreshwater (based on Emydidae)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietomnivore (based on Emydidae)
Reproductionoviparous (based on Emydidae)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution
Common Name(s) Blanding's Turtle, Blanding's Turtles
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emydoidea

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Emydoidea blandingii
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
Blanding's Turtle810.3 Ma
Miocene
0 Ma
Extant
Emydoidea hutchisoni
species
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Neoemys Lindholm, 1929GBIFgenusAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Neoemys

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1870Emydoidea Gray
1975Emydoidea Bickham p. 203
1988Emydoidea Carroll
1989Emydoidea Ernst and Barbour
1995Emydoidea Parris and Daeschler p. 564
1996Emydoidea Frank and Ramus
2002Emydoidea Holman p. 439
2014Emydoidea van Dijk et al.
2018Emydoidea Vlachos

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Bickham J. W. (1975) A Cytosystematic Study of Turtles in the Genera Clemmys, Mauremys and Sacalia, Herpetologica 31 2, 198-204
Ernst C. H., Barbour R. W. (1989) Turtles of the World, Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution Press
Parris D. C., Daeschler E. (1995) Pleistocene turtles of Port Kennedy Cave (late Irvingtonian), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Journal of Paleontology 69 3, 563-568
Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377
Holman J. A. (2002) Additional specimens of the Miocene turtle Emydoidea hutchisoni Holman 1995: new temporal occurrences, taxonomic characters, and phylogenetic inferences, Journal of Herpetology 36 3, 436-446
van Dijk P. P., Iverson J. B., et al (2014) Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status, Chelonian Research Monographs 5, 329-479
Vlachos E. (2018) A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea, Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 59 1, 3-94
Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Kevin de Queiroz, et al., 2012: Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding, Seventh Ed.. Herpetological Circular, no. 39. 1-92. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2004: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, draft (2004). - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
SN2000, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Suppl. Cat. Shield Rept. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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