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    Species Accepted

    Pelusios castaneus (Schweigger, 1812)

    African Mud Turtle

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Recorded as introduced in 3 countries or islands

      3 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      BelgiumNo
      BelgiumNoUnknown
      GuadeloupeNo

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      African Mud Turtle English
      Kastaniebrun Klapskildpadde Danish
      Pelusio castano Italian
      Péluse de Schweigger French
      Péluse de Schweigger (La) French
      Seychelles Black Terrapin English
      Seychelles Mud Turtle English
      Seychelles Terrapin English
      Vestafrikansk Dynnskilpadde Norwegian Bokmål
      West African Mud Turtle English

      Treatments

      1 result

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      67 results
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      Schweigger, A. F. (1812). Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem., 1: 271-368, 406-458.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J.; van Dijk, P.P.; Iverson, J.B. & Shaffer, H.B. [turtle taxonomy working group]. (2010). Turtles of the World, 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V3.2010.
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      Zhong, H., Shao, X., Cao, J., Huang, J., Wang, J., Yang, N., & Yuan, B. (2024). Comparison of the Distribution Patterns of Microsatellites Across the Genomes of Reptiles. Ecology and Evolution, 14(11), E70458.
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      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.
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      Citation

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