Tewksbury Institute of Herpetology - The Complete Chelonian Taxonomy

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The Complete Chelonian Taxonomy List

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The World Chelonian Trust wishes to extend its sincere thanks to Maurice Rodrigues for the use of the taxonomic information listed below.

Taxonomic data - Compiled by Maurice Rodrigues

Web edit - Darrell Senneke

Web edit review - Chris Tabaka DVM

Edits and updates will be made as often as possible. Please send such corrections and comments to Maurice Rodrigues.

We will maintain a web page of updates that are made and the reason / source for the changes at UPDATES

Most Recent Update -- November 20, 2002

KEY: The numbers in parentheses after the genus represent the number of species within that genus.

The number after the decimal represents the number of sub-species within that genus.

Linked species names in the table below will take you to the Photo Galleries of the World Chelonian Trust web site where photographs of the respective genera, species, or subspecies can be found.

The cells with the color background indicate the presence of one of the World Chelonian Trust Care Sheets for that species or genus which may be directly accessed by clicking on the "WCT Care Sheet" link in the colored cells.

Kingdom	*Animalia*
Phylum	*Chordata*
Class	*Reptilia*
Subclass	*Anapsida*
Order	*Testudines*

Suborder

Cryptodira

Superfamily	Family	Subfamily	Genus	Species	Subspecies
*none*
	*Chelydridae*
		*none*
			*Chelydra (3.2)*
				*acutirostris*
				*rossignonii*
		WCT Care Sheet		*serpentina*
					*osceola*
					*serpentina*
		*none*
			*Macrochelys (1.0)*
				*temminckii*
*none*
	*Platysternidae*
		*none*
			*Platysternon (1.4)*
				*megacephalum*
					*megacephalum*
					*peguense¹*
					*shiui*
					*vogeli¹*
*Chelonioidea*
	*Cheloniidae*
		*none*
			*Caretta (1.2)*
				*caretta*
					*caretta*
					*gigas*

Superfamily	Family	Subfamily	Genus	Species	Subspecies

		*none*
			*Chelonia (1.3)*
				*mydas*
					*agassizii*
					*japonica²*
					*mydas*
		*none*
			*Eretmochelys (1.3)*
				*imbricata*
					*bissa*
					*imbricata*
					*squamata³*
		*none*
			*Lepidochelys (2.0)*
				*kempii*
				*olivacea⁴*
		*none*
			*Natator (1.0)*
				*depressus*
	*Dermochelyidae*
			*Dermochelys (1.3)*
				*coriacea*
					*angusta⁵*
					*coriacea*
					*schlegelii*
*Testudinoidea*
	*Emydidae*
		*Deirochelyinae*
			*Chrysemys (1.4)*
		WCT Care Sheet		*picta*
					*bellii*
					*dorsalis*
					*marginata*
					*picta*

Superfamily	Family	Subfamily	Genus	Species	Subspecies

			*Deirochelys (1.3)*
				*reticularia*
					*chrysea*
					*miaria*
					*reticularia*
	WCT Care Sheet		*Graptemys (12.6)*
				*barbouri*
				*caglei*
				*ernsti*
				*flavimaculata*
				*geographica*
				*gibbonsi*
				*nigrinoda*
					*delticola*
					*nigrinoda*
				*oculifera*
				*ouachitensis*
					*ouachitensis*
					*sabinensis*
				*pseudogeographica*
					*kohnii*
					*pseudogeographica*
				*pulchra*
				*versa*
	WCT Care Sheet		*Malaclemys (1.7)*
				*terrapin*
					*centrata*
					*littoralis*
					*macrospilota*