Siebenrockiella leytensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea
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: Testudinoidea

Familia: Geoemydidae
Subfamilia: Geoemydinae
Genus: Siebenrockiella
Species: Siebenrockiella leytensis

Name

Siebenrockiella leytensis (Taylor, 1920)

Holotype: zoological laboratory, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, unnumbered specimen; transfered to BSMP according Taylor (1944: 160). [destroyed during WWII]

Neotype: CAS 60930. [designated by Buskirk (1989: 226)]

Type locality: “Cabalian, southern Leyte, P. I. [=Philippines].”

Combinations

Heosemys leytensis Taylor, 1920: 131 [original combination]
Geoemyda leytensis — Mertens et al., 1934 [subsequent combination]
Siebenrockiella (Panyaenemys) leytensis — Diesmos et al., 2005: 37, 38 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

Taylor, E.H. 1920. Philippine turtles. Philippine Journal of Science 16(2): 111–144. BHL Reference page.
Buskirk, J.R. 1989. A third specimen and neotype of Heosemys leytensis (Chelonia: Emydidae). Copeia 1989(1): 224–227. DOI: 10.2307/1445633 JSTOR
Diesmos, A.C., Parham, J.F., Stuart, B.L. & Brown, R.M. 2005. The Phylogenetic Position of the Recently Rediscovered Philippine Forest Turtle (Bataguridae: Heosemys leytensis). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(3): 31–41. BHL

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Siebenrockiella leytensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 April 2018.
Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. IUCN: Siebenrockiella leytensis (Critically Endangered) (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T39599A97378088. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39599A10245269.en

Vernacular names

čeština: Želva palawanská
English: Philippine forest turtle, Leyte Pond Turtle