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Pelusios chapini LAURENT, 1965

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Higher TaxaPelomedusidae, Pelomedusoidea, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Central African Mud Turtle 
SynonymPelusios castaneus chapini LAURENT 1965: 21
Pelusios chapini — BOUR 1983
Pelusios castaneus chapini — ALDERTON 1988
Pelusios chapini — KING & BURKE 1989
Pelusios castaneus chapini — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 18
Pelusios chapini — BROADLEY 1998
Pelusios chapini — PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008
Pelusios chapini — TTWG 2014: 437
Pelusios chapini — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 56
Pelusios chapini — TTWG 2021 
DistributionW/C/N Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, Angola, Republic of South Sudan (RSS)

Type locality: "Kasenyi, Lake Albert. Bunia Terr., Ituri, Congo" [= Zaire]  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 20937 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (633 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: Considered a synonym of Pelusios castaneus by Wermuth and Mertens (1977: 117). The recognition of the weakly differentiated P. castaneus and P. chapini as full species is doubtful fide Fritz et al. (2010).

Distribution: For maps see TTWG 2014 and Kindler et al. 2015.

Habitat: freshwater (Lakes, quiet rivers) 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. James Paul Chapin (1889-1964), an American ornithologist and co-leader ofthe Lang-Chapin expedition, which made the first comprehensive biological survey of the Belgian Congo (1909-1915). 
References
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  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1981. A review of the genus Pelusios Wagler in southern Africa (Pleurodira: Pelomedusidae). Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Rhodesia, B, Natural Science. 6 (9): 633-686. - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Fritz, Uwe; William R. Branch, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr, Jérôme Maran, Hynek Prokop, Alfred Schleicher, Pavel Š iroký, Heiko Stuckas, Mario Vargas-Ramírez, Miguel Vences, Anna K. Hundsdörfer 2010. Molecular phylogeny of African hinged and helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelusios and Pelomedusa). Zoologica Scripta DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00464.x - get paper here
  • Kindler, Carolin; Maggie Moosig, William R. Branch, James Harvey, Christian Kehlmaier, Zoltán T. Nagy, Hynek Prokop, Pavel Široký and Uwe Fritz 2015. Comparative phylogeographies of six species of hinged terrapins (Pelusios spp.) reveal discordant patterns and unexpected differentiation in the P. castaneus/P. chapini complex and P. rhodesianus. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, DOI: 10.1111/bij.12647 - get paper here
  • Laurent, R.F. 1965. A contribution to the knowledge of the genus Pelusios (Wagler). Annales de Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Science Zoologique. Tervuren. Ser. 8, 135: 1-33. - get paper here
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