Testudo

Vide etiam paginam discretivam: testudo (discretiva).

Quattuor testudines generis Testudinis.
A sinistra, motu horologico:
Testudo graeca ibera
Testudo hermanni boettgeri
Testudo hermanni hermanni
Testudo marginata sarda.

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Reptilia
Ordo : Testudines
Subordo : Cryptodira
Familia : Testudinidae
Genus : Testudo
Linnaeus, 1758

Subdivisiones: Species

Classificatio hodie disputatur.

Species typica

Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758

Testudo (-inis, f.) est genus reptilium familiae Testudinidarum.

Modo in hoc genere etiam Testudo hermanni (nunc Eurotestudo) et Testudo horsfieldii (nunc Agrionemys) collocabantur, et antea omnes species Testudinidarum vel Cheloniorum.

Cladogramma

Supergenus Testudona Parham, 2006
- species Malacochersus tornieri (Siebenrock, 1903)
- ?genus Furculachelys A.C.Highfield, 1990 (= T. graeca nabeulensis + T. graeca whitei)
- genus Testudo Linnaeus, 1758
  - species Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758
    - ?subspecies Testudo graeca ibera Pallas, 1814
    - ?subspecies Testudo graeca nabeulensis A.C.Highfield, 1990
    - ?subspecies Testudo graeca whitei (Bennett, 1836) A.C.Highfield & J.Martín, 1989
  - subgenus Chersus Gmira, 1993
    - species Testudo (Chersus) kleinmanni Lortet, 1883 (aliquando Pseudotestudo kleinmanni)
    - species Testudo (Chersus) marginata Schoepff, 1792
    - ?species Testudo werneri Perälä, 2001 (= T. kleinmanni)

Bibliographia

van der Kuyl, Antoinette C., Donato L. Ph. Ballasina, John T. Dekker, Jolanda Maas, Ronald E. Willemsen, et Jaap Goudsmit. 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships among the Species of the Genus Testudo (Testudines: Testudinidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial 12S rRNA Gene Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22 (2): 174–183. doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.1052. PMID 11820839.