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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Emydidae
Bibliography of the genus Clemmys
Biodiversity of the family Emydidae








Genus
Clemmys

American Spotted Turtle

Tropfenschildkröte

Prikket Flodskildpadde

1828 Clemmys Ritgen (type species: Testudo punctata Schoepff 1792)
1832 Chelopus Rafinesque (type species: Testudo punctata Schoepff 1792; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1857 Nanemys Rafinesque (type species: Testudo guttata Schneider 1792; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1870 Geoclemmys Gray (type species: Testudo guttata Schneider 1792; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)
1919 Melanemys Shufeldt (type species: Testudo guttata Schneider 1792; syn. Fritz & Havas 2006)

Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously included Actinemys marmorata, Glyptemys insculpta and G. muhlenbergi.
Distribution: As for the single species.

Clemmys guttata

American Spotted Turtle

Tropfenschildkröte

Prikket Flodskildpadde

1792 Testudo guttata Schneider
Emys guttata Schweigger 1812
Geoclemys guttata Gray 1856
Nanemys guttata Agassiz 1857
Clemmys guttata Strauch 1862
Geoclemmys guttata Gray 1870
Chelopus guttatus Cope 1875
Melanemys guttatus Shufeldt 1919
1792 Testudo anonyma Schneider in Schoepff [nomen nudum] (Fritz & Havas 2006)
1792 Testudo punctata Schoepff [not Testudo punctata Lacepede 1788] (Fritz & Havas 2006)
Emys punctata Merrem 1820
Clemmys punctata Wagler 1830
Terrapene punctata Bonaparte 1831
Chelopus punctatus Rafinesque 1832
1869 Geoclemmys sebae Gray (Fritz & Havas 2006)

Distribution: Canada (Ontario, Quebec), USA (Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [incl. Long Island], North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia).