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Pelomedusa barbata PETZOLD, VARGAS-RAMÍREZ, KEHLMAIER, VAMBERGER, BRANCH, DU PREEZ, HOFMEYR, MEYER, SCHLEICHER, ŠIROKÝ & FRITZ, 2014

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Higher TaxaPelomedusidae, Pelomedusoidea, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPelomedusa barbata PETZOLD, VARGAS-RAMÍREZ, KEHLMAIER, VAMBERGER, BRANCH, DU PREEZ, HOFMEYR, MEYER, SCHLEICHER, ŠIROKÝ & FRITZ 2014
Pelomedusa barbata — TTWG 2017: 202
Pelomedusa barbata — TTWG 2021 
DistributionYemen

Type locality: Zinjibar, Abyan, Yemen, N13°7.75 E45°22.81  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MTD D 24637 (Museum für Tierkunde, Senckenberg Dresden), male; leg. W. Wranik, 3 June 1985; Fig. 3 top). Paratypes: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle Genève (MNHG 2310.062, adult male, Al Sukhna, Yemen; MNHG 2455.073–075, adult male and two juveniles, Wadi Warazan, Lahij, Yemen); Museum für Tierkunde, Senckenberg Dresden (MTD D 24638, adult female, Lahij, Yemen); The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH 1985.1475, mummified adult, Al Kadan, Tihama, Al Hudaydah, Yemen; BMNH 1985.1478–1479, adult male and female, Amanat Al Asimah, Sana’a Area, Yemen); Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (ZFMK 87122, juvenile, Asir Region, Saudi Arabia). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Medium-sized, light-coloured helmeted terrapins with a known maximum straight carapacial length of 21.6 cm (Gasperetti et al. 1993). Pectorals with narrow to broad midseam contact. Two small temporal scales (rarely only one large scale) on each side of head. Two or three large to very large barbels under chin. In adults, carapace light coloured, plastron entirely yellow. [PETZOLD et al. 2014].


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CommentPhylogenetics: Pelomedusa barbata corresponds to mtDNA lineage VII of Vargas-Ramírez et al. (2010). According to our analyses of mtDNA, P. barbata belongs to the northern species group of Pelomedusa and is most closely related to P. somalica (Fig. 1).

Distribution: Map: Petzold et al. 2014

Habitat: freshwater () 
EtymologyThe name (Latin: bearded) refers to the large barbels beneath the chin of the new species 
References
  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Els, J., AlqAhtAni, A.r., fritz, u., ShobrAk, M., buSAiS, S.M., And burriEl-CArrAnzA, b. 2022. Pelomedusa barbata Petzold, Vargas-Ramírez, Kehlmaier, Vamberger, Branch, Du Preez, Hofmeyr, Meyer, Schleicher, Široký, and Fritz 2014 – Arabian Helmeted Turtle, Arabian Marsh Turtle, Arabian Mud Turtle. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(16):118.1–10 - 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
  • 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
  • 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. (Ed 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.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
 
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