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

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Higher Taxa	Trionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: 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)
Synonym	Pelodiscus huangshanensis GONG, PENG, HUANG, LIN, HUANG, XU, YANG, & NIE 2021 Pelodiscus huangshanensis — TTWG 2021
Distribution	China (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
Types	Holotype. 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.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: 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) Additional details (4112 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: see map in Gong et al. 2022: 141 (Fig. 7).
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; 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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B7FD8234-A78D-47AC-93D5… Google images

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