Taxonavigation

Familia: Geoemydidae
Subfamilia: Rhinoclemmydinae
Genus: Rhinoclemmys
Species: Rhinoclemmys melanosterna

Name

• Rhinoclemmys melanosterna Gray 1861: 205
  • Holotype: Syntypes: BMNH 1947.3.4.8, and 1947.3.5.51
  • Type locality: "The Gulf of Darién: Cherunha"; Boulenger 1889:124, listed the types as being from "River Buonaventura (sic)" and "Chirambira, Gulf of Darien"; restricted to "Chirambira, near Buenaventura" Colombia by Mertens and Wermuth 1955:352; corrected to Boca Chirambira, delta of the Rio San Juan, Choco, Colombia by Medem 1958:21

Synonymy

• Geoclemmys melanosterna Gray 1861: 205
  • Geoclemmys melanosterna Gray 1861: 336
  • Rhinoclemys [sic] melanosterna Gray 1863: 183
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna Gray 1873: 144
  • Nicoria punctularia var. melanosternum Boulenger 1889
  • Geoemyda punctularia melanosternum Siebenrock 1909
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna Pritchard 1979
  • Rhinoclemmys punctularia melanosterna Ernst 1981
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna King & Burke 1989
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna Köhler 2000: 22
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna TTWG 2014
  • Rhinoclemmys melanosterna TTWG 2017

References

• Gray, J.E. 1861. On a new species of water-tortoise (Geoclemmys melanosterna) from Darien. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 8: 336-337
• Pritchard, P.C.H. 1979. Encyclopedia of Turtles. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune, New Jersey: 895 p.

• 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. 

• Vargas-Ramírez, M.; Carr, J.L.; Fritz, U. 2013: Complex phylogeography in Rhinoclemmys melanosterna: conflicting mitochondrial and nuclear evidence suggests past hybridization (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 3670(2): 238–254. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.2.8 Reference page. 

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