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Glyptemys insculpta (Le Conte, 1830)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Le Conte, J. Description of the species of North American tortoises.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Testudines
family
Emydidae
genus
Glyptemys
species
Glyptemys insculpta

Name

Synonyms
Chelopus insculptus (Le Conte, 1830)
Clemmys insculpta Fitzinger, 1835
Emys inscripta Gray, 1831
Emys speciosa Gray, 1831
Emys speciosa levigata Gray, 1831
Emys speciosa var. levigata Gray, 1831
Testudo insculpta Le Conte, 1830
Homonyms
Glyptemys insculpta (Le Conte, 1830)
Common names
(North American) Wood Turtle in English
(North American) Wood Turtle in English
(north American) Wood Turtle in English
Baot-koad in Breton
Bosbeekschildpad in Dutch
Galápago de Bosque in Spanish
Metsäkilpikonna in Finnish
Miskwaadesi in Ojibwa
Miškinis vandenvėžlis in Lithuanian
Orman kaplumbağası in Turkish
Red-legged Tortoise in English
Redleg in English
Sculptured Tortoise in English
Skogsbäcksköldpadda in Swedish
Skogskilpadde in Norwegian
Tortue des bois in French
Waldbach-Schildkröte in German
Waldbachschildkröte in German
Waldbachschildkröte in German
Wood Turtle in English
Wood Turtle in English
Wood Turtle in English
wood turtle in English
északi víziteknős in Hungarian
Żółw leśny in Polish
želva hrbolatá in Czech
Лесная черепаха in Russian
سلحفاة الخشب in Arabic
لجأة الخشب in Arabic
モリイシガメ in Japanese
木雕水龜 in Chinese
Wood Turtle in English
Tortue des bois in French

Bibliographic References

  1. Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Kevin de Queiroz, et al., 2012: Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding, Seventh Ed.. Herpetological Circular, no. 39. 1-92.
  2. Holman, J. Alan, and Uwe Fritz, 2001: A new emydine species from the Middle Miocene (Barstovian) of Nebraska, USA with a new generic arrangement for the species of Clemmys sensu McDowell (1964) (Reptilia: Testudines: Emydidae). Zoologische Abhandlungen, vol. 51, iss. 2, no. 20. 331-353.
  3. LeConte, J. (1830). Description of the species of North American tortoises. <em>Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.</em> 3 [1829]: 91-131.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin, A. G. J., J. Iverson, R. Bour, U. Fritz, A. Georges, et al.], 2021: Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status (9th ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 8. x + 472.
  6. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479.
  7. Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
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