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    Species Accepted

    Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger & Wink, 2005

    Sicilian pond turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Emys
    IUCNData Deficient

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
      Cistude de Sicile French
      Galápago de Sicilia Spanish
      Galápago siciliano Spanish
      Siciliaanse moerasschildpad Dutch
      Sicilian pond turtle English
      Sizilianische Sumpfschildkröte German
      Testuggine palustre di Sicilia Italian
      sisiliansuokilpikonna Finnish
      szicíliai mocsáriteknős Hungarian
      testuggine palustre siciliana Italian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      24 results
      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.
      Fritz, U.; Fattizzo, T.; Guicking, D., Tripepi, S.; Pennisi, M.G.; Lenk, P.; Joger, U. & Wink, M. (2005). A new cryptic species of pond turtle from southern Italy, the hottest spot in the range of the genus Emys (Reptilia, Testudines, Emydidae). Zoologica Scripta 34 (4): 351–371.
      Joger, U.; Fritz, U.; Guicking, D.; Kalyabina-Hauf, S.; Nagy, Z.T. & Wink, M. (2007). Phylogeography of western Palaearctic reptiles – Spatial and temporal speciation patterns. Zoologischer Anzeiger 246: 293–313.
      Chen, C., Wang, J., Holyoak, M., Lin, L., & Wang, Y. (2025). Global assessment of current extinction risks and future challenges for turtles and tortoises. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1-13.
      Marrone, Federico; Francesco Sacco, Vincenzo Arizza, Marco Arculeo. (2016). Amendment of the type locality of the endemic Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris Fritz et al. 2005, with some notes on the highest altitude reached by the species (Testudines, Emydidae). Acta Herpetologica 11 (1): 59-61.
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      SCARDINO, RITA; MARCO ARCULEO, VINCENZO ARIZZA, GIUSEPPE BAZAN, MARIO LO VALVO, FEDERICO MARRONE & LUCA VECCHIONI. (2022). New distributional data on Haemogregarina stepanowi (Apicomplexa) and Placobdella costata (Hirudinea) parasitising the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris (Testudines). Natural History Sciences.
      Kwet, Axel, & Benny Trapp. (2014). Reptilien in Europa – eine aktuelle Übersicht. Draco 15 (60): 6-25.
      Spinks, Phillip Q. & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2009). CONFLICTING MITOCHONDRIAL AND NUCLEAR PHYLOGENIES FOR THE WIDELY DISJUNCT EMYS (TESTUDINES: EMYDIDAE) SPECIES COMPLEX, AND WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT BIOGEOGRAPHY AND HYBRIDIZATION. Systematic Biology 58(1): 1-20.
      Vamberger, M., Stuckas, H., Sacco, F., D’Angelo, S., Arculeo, M., Cheylan, M., Corti, C., Lo Valvo, M., Marrone, F., Wink, M., Fritz, U. (2015). Differences in gene flow in a twofold secondary contact zone of pond turtles in southern Italy (Testudines: Emydidae: Emys orbicularis galloitalica, E. o. hellenica, E. trinacris). Zoologica Scripta 44: 233–249.

      Citation

      Emys trinacris Fritz, Fattizzo, Guicking, Tripepi, Pennisi, Lenk, Joger & Wink, 2005 in undefined