Macrochelys

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cryptodira
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira

Superfamilia: Chelydroidea
Familia: Chelydridae
Genus: Macrochelys
Species (2 + 2†): M. suwanniensis – M. temminckii – †M. auffenbergi – †M. stricta

Name

Macrochelys Gray, 1856
- Type Species: Macrochelys temminckii

Synonyms

Macrochelys Gray 1856:200
- Macroclemys Gray 1856:48 (nomen novum)
- Gypochelys Agassiz 1857:248
- Macroclemmys Alexander Strauch 1862:35 (nomen novum)

References

Gray, J.E. 1856. On some new species freshwater tortoises from North America, Ceylon and Australia, in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1855: 197-202
Echelle, A.A. et al. 2010: Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: Cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure. Conservation genetics, 11: 1375–1387. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9966-1 Reference page.
Hackler, J.C. 2006: Assessment of genetic variation within and among natural and captive populations of alligator snapping turtles (Macrochelys temminckii). MSc Thesis, May.
Hackler, J.C.; Van Den Bussche, R.A.; Leslie, D.M. jr. 2007: Characterization of microsatellite DNA markers for the alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii. Mol. Ecol. Notes, 7: 474–476.
Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Thomas, T.M. et al. 2014: Taxonomic assessment of alligator snapping turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States. Zootaxa 3786(2): 141–165. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.4 Reference page.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Geierschildkröte
English: Alligator Snapping Turtle
日本語: ワニガメ属
Nederlands: Alligatorchelydra
ไทย: เต่าอัลลิเกเตอร์