| Description | The chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) is an uncommon freshwater turtle found in the southeast of the United States.It is in the monotypic genus Deirochelys.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Deirochelys |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Common Name | chicken turtle |
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| Scientific Name | Deirochelys Agassiz, 1857 |
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| Name Published In | Contrib. Nat. Hist. Amer., 1 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Deirochelys | genus | belongs to Emydinae | stated with evidence | Bickham, 1975 | | Deirochelys | genus | belongs to Emydidae | stated without evidence | Frank and Ramus, 1996 | | Deirochelys | genus | belongs to Deirochelyinae | stated without evidence | Holman, 2002 | | Deirochelys | genus | belongs to Emydidae | stated with evidence | Vlachos, 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 3 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 2 (67%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 13.6 - 10.3 Ma
Miocene |
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| Environment | freshwater (based on Emydidae) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | omnivore (based on Emydidae) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous (based on Emydidae) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | L. Agassiz. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata. |
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| Common Name(s) | Chicken Turtle, Chicken Turtles |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirochelys |
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| Agassiz L. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata, 1-452 |
| Bickham J. W. (1975) A Cytosystematic Study of Turtles in the Genera Clemmys, Mauremys and Sacalia, Herpetologica 31 2, 198-204 |
| Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377 |
| Holman J. A. (2002) Additional specimens of the Miocene turtle Emydoidea hutchisoni Holman 1995: new temporal occurrences, taxonomic characters, and phylogenetic inferences, Journal of Herpetology 36 3, 436-446 |
| Parham J. F., Outerbirdge M. E., et al (2008) Introduced delicacy or native species? A natural origin of Bermudian terrapins supported by fossil and genetic data, Biology Letters 2008 4, 216-219 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0599 |
| van Dijk P. P., Iverson J. B., et al (2014) Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status, Chelonian Research Monographs 5, 329-479 |
| Vlachos E. (2018) A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea, Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 59 1, 3-94 |
| Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Kevin de Queiroz, et al., 2012: Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding, Seventh Ed.. Herpetological Circular, no. 39. 1-92. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2004: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, draft (2004). - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Contrib. Nat. Hist. Amer., 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000/Uetz, 1995-, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000/Uetz, 1995- - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Deirochelys
