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Pelomedusa olivacea (SCHWEIGGER, 1812)

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Higher TaxaPelomedusidae, Pelomedusoidea, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymEmys olivacea SCHWEIGGER 1812: 307 (non GRAY 1855)
Pelomedusa gasconi ROCHEBRUNE 1884
Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea — LOVERIDGE 1941
Pelomedusa olivacea — PETZOLD et al. 2014
Pelomedusa olivacea — TTWG 2017: 204
Pelomedusa olivacea — TTWG 2021
Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea — LANKOANDE et al. 2024 
DistributionBenin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal

Type locality: restricted to Senegal

gasconi: Senegal; Type locality restricted to Dagana, Senegal  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesNeotype: ZFMK 17076, original holotype MNHN-RA 7971 (shell only)
Neotype: ZFMK 17076, designated by Fritz et al. 2014 [gasconi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Small to medium-sized helmeted terrapins with a known maximum straight carapacial length of 16.8 cm. Pectoral scutes triangular and either just meeting at their tips along the plastral midseam or more or less widely separated. One large undivided temporal scale on each side of head. Two small barbels under chin. Carapace and plastron light coloured. Soft parts dorsally darker than ventrally.  
CommentDistribution: Map: Petzold et al. 2014; possibly introduced to C Italy and S Korea (Park et al. 2022).

Habitat: freshwater (Ponds, swamps) 
EtymologyThe name olivacea is formed from the Latin word oliva (olive tree) and refers to the characteristic olive color of this species. 
References
  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Ferri, Vincenzo; Corrado Battisti, Christiana Soccini, Riccardo Santoro 2021. First records for Europe of the non-native turtles Kinosternon subrubrum Bonnaterre, 1789 and Pelomedusa olivacea (Schweigger, 1812) in a suburban wetland in central Italy. Herpetology Notes 14: 303-307 - get paper here
  • Fritz, U., Tolley, K. A., Vamberger, M., & Ihlow, F. 2022. Phylogeny and phylogeography of chelonians from sub-Saharan Africa—A review of current knowledge in tribute to Margaretha D. Hofmeyr. Vertebrate Zoology, 72: 951-969 - get paper here
  • Lankoande, A., Konate, S. R., Sirima, D., Dayama, W. F., & Hema, E. M. 2024. Freshwater Turtles in an Arid Land: Population Ecology, Habitat and Ecological Niche Modelling of Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea in the Sahel. African Journal of Ecology, 62(3), e13321 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1941. Revision of the African terrapins of the family Pelomedusidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 88: 467-524. - get paper here
  • McGovern, P., & Luiselli, L. 2023. Knowledge gaps and conservation priorities for west African chelonians,. Amphibia-Reptilia 44 (2): 121-137 - get paper here
  • Park S-M, Rahman MM, Ham C-H, Sung H-C 2022. The first record of an invasive reptile species, Pelomedusa cf. olivacea (Schweigger, 1812) (Pelomedusidae, Testudines), in the wild of South Korea. Check List 18(5): 989-993 - get paper here
  • PETZOLD, ALICE; MARIO VARGAS-RAMÍREZ, CHRISTIAN KEHLMAIER, MELITA VAMBERGER, WILLIAM R. BRANCH, LOUIS DU PREEZ, MARGARETHA D. HOFMEYR, LEON MEYER, ALFRED SCHLEICHER, PAVEL ŠIROKÝ & UWE FRITZ 2014. A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 3795 (5): 523–548 - get paper here
  • Rochebrune, A. T. de 1884. Faune de la Senegambie. Reptiles. O. Dom, Paris, 1-221. - get paper here
  • Schweigger, A.F. 1812. Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem., 1: 271-368, 406-458.
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • TTWG; Anders G.J. Rhodin, John B. iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur GeoRges, H. BRadley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7:1–292. doi: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
 
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