Pelusios

Taxobox | name = "Pelusios"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Pelusios niger"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
familia = Pelomedusidae
genus = "Pelusios"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Pelusios" is a genus of African side-necked turtle. Several species have been described and there are probably numerous undescribed species. The taxonomy of the genus is very confused as these species show many local variaitons. They are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles islands.

Species include:
*"Pelusios acupulata"
*"Pelusios adansonii"
*"Pelusios castanaeus"
*"Pelusios castanoides" (subspecies "Pelusios castanoides intergularis")
*"Pelusios chapini"
*"Pelusios gaboni"
*"Pelusios marani"
*"Pelusios niger"
*"Pelusios seychellensis"
*"Pelusios sinuatus"
*"Pelusios subniger" (subspecies "Pelusios subniger parietalis")
*"Pelusios williamsii"

External links

*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/reptiles/Pelusios_subniger/ images and movies of the East African black mud turtle "(Pelusios subniger)"]