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    Species Accepted

    Pelusios niger (Duméril & Bibron, 1835)

    Black Hinged Terrapin
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Pelusios
    IUCNNear Threatened

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Black Hinged Terrapin English
      Pelusio di foresta comune Italian
      Péluse à bec crochu French
      Schwarze Klappbrust-Pelomedusenschildkröte German
      Schwarze Pelomedusenschildkröte German
      Tortuga Negra de de la Selva de África Occidental Spanish
      West African Black Forest Turtle English
      West African Black Mud Turtle English
      West African Black Turtle English
      fekete sisakteknős Hungarian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.
      McCord, W. P., Joseph-Ouni, M., & Bour, R. (2004). Chelonian Illustrations #15: Madagascan Big-Headed, African Helmeted, and West African Mud Turtles. Reptilia (GB) (35): 63-67.
      Akani, Godfrey C., Fabio Petrozzi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto and Luca Luiselli. (2015). Notes on morphology, biology and domestic consumption of Pelusios niger (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) from Forcados River, Nigeria. Herpetozoa 28 (1/2): 94-98.
      Gray, J. E. (1864). On the species of the genus Sternothaerus, with some observations on Kinixys. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 165-170.
      TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. (2025). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1897 a) Description of a new tortoise of the genus Sternothaerus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1897, 919. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1898. tb 01394. x
      Siebenrock, F. (1905). Chelonologische Notizen. Zool. Anz. 29: 460-468.
      Trape, J.F.; Trape, S. & Chirio, L. (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d’Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. IRD Orstom, 503 Pp.
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.

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