Showing posts with label Chelonia - Turtle; Tortoise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chelonia - Turtle; Tortoise. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

[Herpetology • 2017] Trachemys medemi n. sp. from northwestern Colombia turns the Biogeography of South American Slider Turtles Upside Down ---ScRaBBlE

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Trachemys medemi Vargas-Ramírez, del Valle, Ceballos & Fritz , 2017 DOI:  10.1111/jzs.12179   Abstract South America was invaded by slid...

[Herpetology • 2018] Resolving Taxonomic Turbulence and Uncovering Cryptic Diversity in the Musk Turtles (Sternotherus) Using Robust Demographic Modeling; Sternotherus intermedius ---ScRaBBlE

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Sternotherus intermedius Scott, Glenn & Rissler, 2018 DOI:  10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.008    Highlights • We use 3RADseq to resolve Musk T...

[Paleontology • 2017] A Jurassic Stem Pleurodire, Platychelys oberndorferi, Sheds Light on the Functional Origin of Neck Retraction in Turtles ---ScRaBBlE

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Platychelys oberndorferi  Wagner, 1853 Life  reconstruction represents  Platychelys oberndorferi  as a fast ram feeder and emphasizes the re...

[Herpetology • 2017] Checklist of Chelonians from the upper Madeira River and the lower Madeira-Purus interfluvium (Brazilian Amazon), including A Range Expansion for Podocnemis sextuberculata Cornalia, 1849 ---ScRaBBlE

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CD-02. Chelonoidis denticulata . MR-07. Mesoclemmys raniceps .             CF-01. Chelus fimbriatus . PE-04. Podocnemis expansa .           ...

[Paleontology • 2017] Owadowia borsukbialynickae • A New Pancryptodiran Turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland and Palaeobiology of Early Marine Turtles ---ScRaBBlE

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  Owadowia borsukbialynickae Szczygielski, Tyborowski & Błażejowski, 2017 DOI:  10.1002/gj.2952   Abstract Although Western Europe has y...

[Herpetology • 2017] Identification of Genetically Important Individuals of the Rediscovered Floreana Galápagos Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis elephantopus) Provide Founders for Species Restoration Program ---ScRaBBlE

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Abstract Species are being lost at an unprecedented rate due to human-driven environmental changes. The cases in which species declared exti...

[Crustacea • 2017] Hexapleomera urashima • A Tanaidid Epibiotic (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) on Loggerhead Sea Turtles at Yakushima Island, Japan ---ScRaBBlE

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Hexapleomera urashima Tanabe, Hayashi, Tomioka & Kakui, 2017 DOI:   10.11646/zootaxa.4353.1.9   Abstract We describe  Hexapleomera urash...

[Herpetology • 2019] Pelodiscus variegatus • A New Species of Pelodiscus (Testudines, Trionychidae) from northeastern Indochina ---ScRaBBlE

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Pelodiscus variegatus Farkas, Ziegler, Pham, Ong & Fritz, 2019 DOI:  10.3897/zookeys.824.31376   Photographs Thomas Ziegler.  Abstract A...