Geoemyda

Belongs within: Pantestuguria.

Geoemyda (leaf turtles) is a genus of freshwater turtles found in eastern Asia.

Characters (from Rooij 1915): Head covered with smooth skin, undivided. Alveolar surfaces narrow, without median ridge; choanae between the eyes. Neural plates hexagonal, short-sided behind or alternately tetragonal and octagonal. Plastron united to the carapace by suture. Digits with or without a short web; five claws on the fore limb, four on the hind limb. Tail very short.

<==Geoemyda
    |--G. japonica Fan 1931JPG04
    |--G. mouhotiiR93
    |--G. punctularia Daudin 1802M54
    |    |--G. p. punctularia [incl. G. bellii Gray 1863, G. dorsualis Spix 1824]M54
    |    |--G. p. diademata Mertens 1954M54
    |    |--G. p. lunata Gray 1873 [incl. G. ventricosa Gray 1873]M54
    |    |--G. p. melanosterna Gray 1861M54
    |    `--G. p. nasuta Boulenger 1902M54
    |--G. pulcherrima [incl. G. callocephalus Gray 1863]M54
    |--G. silvatica Henderson 1912JPG04
    |--G. spengleri (Gmelin 1789)JPG04
    |    |--G. s. spengleriI92
    |    `--G. s. japonica Fan 1931I92
    |--G. sylvaticaCP03
    |--G. tricarinata [=Vicoria tricarinata]USDI77
    `--G. yuwonoiCP03

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[CP03] Claude, J., E. Paradis, H. Tong & J.-C. Auffray. 2003. A geometric morphometric assessment of the effects of environment and cladogenesis on the evolution of the turtle shell. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 485–501.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[JPG04] Joyce, W. G., J. F. Parham & J. A. Gauthier. 2004. Developing a protocol for the conversion of rank-based taxon names to phylogenetically defined clade names, as exemplified by turtles. Journal of Paleontology 78 (5): 989–1013.

[M54] Mertens, R. 1954. Zur Kenntnis der Schildkrötenfauna Venezuelas. Senckenbergiana Biologica 35: 3–7.

[R93] Rieppel, O. 1993. Patterns of diversity in the reptilian skull. In: Hanken, J., & B. K. Hall (eds) 1993. The Skull vol. 2. Patterns of Structural and Systematic Diversity pp. 344–390. The University of Chicago Press.

Rooij, N. de. 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago. E. J. Brill: Leiden.

[USDI77] USDI (United States Department of the Interior). 1977. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants—republication of list of species. Federal Register 42: 36420–36431.