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Pelodiscus huangshanensis GONG, PENG, HUANG, LIN, HUANG, XU, YANG, & NIE, 2021

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Higher TaxaTrionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: horse-hoof soft-shelled turtle, Huangshan soft-shelled turtle
Chinese: 黄山马蹄鳖 (Huáng Shān Mǎ tí Biē); local name: 马蹄鳖 (Mǎ tí Biē) 
SynonymPelodiscus huangshanensis GONG, PENG, HUANG, LIN, HUANG, XU, YANG, & NIE 2021
Pelodiscus huangshanensis — TTWG 2021
Pelodiscus huangshanensis — TTWG 2025 
DistributionChina (Anhui)

Type locality: stream from Xikou Town, Xiuning County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China (118.02°N, 29.69°E, and 170 m A. S. L.). The coordinates are given only with a precision of 0.01 degrees to avoid private or commercial sampling.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. ANU 20210001, an adult male (Fig. 2). The specimen was collected on 10 June 2017 and deposited at Anhui Normal University Museum (voucher: ANU20210001).
Paratypes. ANU 20210002, adult female (Fig 3); ANU 20210003, adult female; ANU 20210004, juvenile; ANU 20210005, juvenile; CIB 116368, juvenile; SNHM 5414, juvenile. They were sampled from May to June, 2017 around the site of holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Pelodiscus huangshanensis sp. nov. differs from the five known congeners by a combination of the following characters: (1) Small size; maximum carapace length of 84.0 mm and maximum body length of 190 mm; (2) keel high; (3) tiny yellowish-white spots on the throat; (4) no black pinstripes around the eyes; (5) white longitudinal bands on both sides of the neck in juveniles, absent in adults (Fig. 4); (6) plastron yellowish-white, and only a dark patch on each side of the armpit; (7) many tubercles on the dorsal surface, but indistinct in the center; and (8) entoplastron “⌒” shaped. (Gong et al. 2021)


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CommentDistribution: see map in Gong et al. 2022: 141 (Fig. 7). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality of this species, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. 
References
  • GONG, SHIPING; UWE FRITZ, MELITA VAMBERGER, YANGCHUN GAO, & BALÁZS FARKAS 2022. Disentangling the Pelodiscus axenaria complex, with the description of a new Chinese species and neotype designation for P. axenaria (Zhou, Zhang & Fang, 1991) Zootaxa 5125 (2): 131–143 - get paper here
  • GONG, Y.-A., PENG, L.-F., HUANG, S., LIN, Y.-F., HUANG, R.-Y., XU, Y.-H., YANG, D.-C., & NIE, L.-W. 2021. A new species of the Genus Pelodiscus Fitzinger, 1835 (Testudines: Trionychidae) from Huangshan, Anhui, China. Zootaxa 5060 (1): 137–145 - get paper here
  • Liu, J. Y., Fu, W., Ma, Y. H., Zhou, T., Blanck, T., Zhou, G. J., ... & Mo, X. Y. 2024. Shedding Light into the Confusing History of Pelodiscus axenaria (Zhou, Zhang et Fang, 1991), Clarifying and Correcting Its Taxonomic Position within the P. axenaria Complex with the Description of Yet Another Pelodiscus Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 31(6), 337-350 - get paper here
  • TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. 2025. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th 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 10:1-575 - 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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