Macrochelys Gray, 1856
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Gray, John E. 1856. On some new species of freshwater tortoises from North America, Ceylon and Australia, in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855: 197–202.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Testudines
- family
- Chelydridae
- genus
- Macrochelys
Name
- Synonyms
- Gypochelys Agassiz, 1857
- Macroclemmys Gray, 1856
- Macroclemmys Strauch, 1862
- Macroclemys Gray, 1855
- Homonyms
- Macrochelys Gray, 1856
- Macrochelys Meyer, 1858
- Common names
- Alligator Snapping Turtle in English
- Alligator Snapping Turtles in English
- Alligator Snapping Turtles in English
- Alligator Snapping Turtles in English
- Alligatorchelydra in Dutch
- Geierschildkröte in German
- Tortuga caimán in Spanish
- alligator snapping turtle in English
- Грифовые черепахи in Russian
- צב אליגטור in Hebrew
- เต่าอัลลิเกเตอร์ in Thai
- ワニガメ属 in Japanese
- 大鱷龜屬 in Chinese
- 악어거북속 in Korean
Bibliographic References
- Aronsson (2016) Exceldokument: Främmande arter grunddata.xls Skapat 2016-10-25
- CoL 2006
- 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.
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 23
- SN2000/Uetz, 1995-
- SN2000/Uetz, 1995-
- Thomas, Travis, Michael Granatosky, Jason Bourque, Kenneth Krysko, Paul Moler, Tony Gamble, et al., 2014: Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States. Zootaxa, vol. 3786, issue 2. 141-165.
- 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.
- 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.
- Uetz & Hallermann (2017) The Reptile Database, Zoological Museum Hamburg
- Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
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