Manouria

Manouria is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae.

Manouria
Manouria emys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Manouria
Gray, 1854

Species

The following five species are recognized as being valid, two of which are extant,[1] and three of which is extinct:

  • Manouria sondaari Karl & Staesche, 2007 † – an \Bold text giant land tortoise from Luzon Island, Philippines.;[2][3] however, Rhodin et al. (2015) transferred this species to the genus Megalochelys[4]
  • Manouria punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1889) † – a fossil tortoise from Siwaliks, India[4]
  • Manouria oyamai Takahashi, Otsuka & Hirayama , 2003 † – a fossil tortoise from Ryukyu Islands, Japan[4]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Manouria.

References
  1. "Manouria ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Karl, Hans-Volker; Staesche, Ulrich (2007). "Fossile Riesen-Landschildkröten von den Philippinen und ihre paläogeographische Bedeutung [= Fossil Giant Land Tortoises from the Philippines and their paleogeographic importance]". Geologischesahrbuch A 160: 171–197. (Manouria sondaari, new species). (in German with abstract in English).
  3. Staesche, Ulrich (coordinator) (2007). Fossile Schildkröten aus vier Ländern in drei Kontinenten: Deutschland, Türkei, Niger, Philippen [= Fossil Turtles from Four Countries on Three Continents: Germany, Turkey, Niger, and the Philippines]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B, Heft 98 [= Series B, Issue 98]. 197 pp. ISBN 978-3-510-95967-9. http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/artno/186029800 (in German).
  4. Anders G.J. Rhodin; Scott Thomson; Georgios L. Georgalis; Hans-Volker Karl; Igor G. Danilov; Akio Takahashi; Marcelo S. de la Fuente; Jason R. Bourque; Massimo Delfino; Roger Bour; John B. Iverson; H. Bradley Shaffer; Peter Paul van Dijk (2015). "Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (8): 000e.1–66. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015.

Further reading
  • Gray JE (1854). "Description of a New Genus and some New Species of Tortoises". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1852: 133–135. (Manouria, new genus, p. 133).


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