Tortoise and freshwater turtle genera are the genera of the land and fresh water turtles of the order Testudines. Their shell is a modified ribcage and part of the vertebral column, and the earliest known turtles date from the Upper Triassic. GBIF lists its genera in the family Testudinidae, led by Testudo, Chelonoidis, Gopherus, Kinixys and Indotestudo, 29 in the family Emydidae, led by Trachemys, Terrapene, Graptemys, Emys and Pseudemys, and 29 in the Geoemydidae, led by Cuora, Rhinoclemmys, Mauremys, Cyclemys and Pangshura.
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Animal Diversity Web: Testudines
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All turtles are placed within the order Testudines
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Testudinidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Testudinidae
"canonicalName":"Gopherus","vernacularName":"gopher tortoise","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1832","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Atlant. J., 1, no. 2","numDescendants":20
Children of Testudinidae: Testudo
"canonicalName":"Testudo","vernacularName":"Palearctic Tortoises","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":101
Children of Testudinidae: Chelonoidis
"canonicalName":"Chelonoidis","vernacularName":"Charles Island Giant Tortoise","authorship":"Fitzinger, 1835","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Fitzinger, L. (1843). Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus: Amblyglossae. Vindobonae: Braumüller und Seidel. 106 pp.","numDescendants":45
Children of Testudinidae: Kinixys
"canonicalName":"Kinixys","vernacularName":"hingeback tortoise","authorship":"Bell, 1827","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15 (2), 394","numDescendants":17
Children of Testudinidae: Indotestudo
"canonicalName":"Indotestudo","vernacularName":"Asian Tortoises","authorship":"Lindholm, 1929","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Zool. Anz., 81","numDescendants":11
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Emydidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Emydidae
"canonicalName":"Trachemys","vernacularName":"slider","authorship":"Agassiz, 1857","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Agassiz, Jean L. R. 1857. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Little, Brown and Co., Boston. Vol. 1: 452.","numDescendants":52
Children of Emydidae: Terrapene
"canonicalName":"Terrapene","vernacularName":"box turtle","authorship":"Merrem, 1820","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Tent. Syst. Amph., 12","numDescendants":36
Children of Emydidae: Graptemys
"canonicalName":"Graptemys","vernacularName":"map turtle","authorship":"Agassiz, 1857","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Agassiz, Jean L. R. 1857. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Little, Brown and Co., Boston. Vol. 1: 452.","numDescendants":26
Children of Emydidae: Emys
"canonicalName":"Emys","vernacularName":"pond turtle","authorship":"Duméril, 1806","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Zoologie analytique ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux ..., p. 76","numDescendants":21
Children of Emydidae: Pseudemys
"canonicalName":"Pseudemys","vernacularName":"cooter","authorship":"Gray, 1856","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gray, John E. 1856. Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). The Trustees of British Museum, London.: 1-79; Pls. 1-42.","numDescendants":15
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Geoemydidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Geoemydidae
"canonicalName":"Cuora","vernacularName":"Asian box turtle","authorship":"Gray, 1856","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Blanck, Torsten, Tomas Protiva, Ting Zhou, Yi Li, Paul Crow & Ralph Tiedemann. 2017. New subspecies of Cuora cyclornata (BLANCK, MCCORD & LE, 2006), Cuora trifasciata (BELL, 1825) and Cuora aurocapitata (LUO & ZONG, 1988). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 36(4).","numDescendants":56
Children of Geoemydidae: Rhinoclemmys
"canonicalName":"Rhinoclemmys","vernacularName":"Neotropical Wood Turtles","authorship":"Fitzinger, 1835","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien , 1 : 115","numDescendants":25
Children of Geoemydidae: Mauremys
"canonicalName":"Mauremys","vernacularName":"pond turtle","authorship":"Gray, 1869","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"DOUBTFUL","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gray, John E. 1869. Description of Mauremys laniaria, a new freshwater tortoise. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1869(33): 499-500; Pl. 37.","numDescendants":14
Children of Geoemydidae: Cyclemys
"canonicalName":"Cyclemys","vernacularName":"Asian leaf turtle","authorship":"Bell, 1834","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 2","numDescendants":16
Children of Geoemydidae: Pangshura
"canonicalName":"Pangshura","authorship":"Gray, 1856","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Cat. Shield Rept. Brit. Mus., 1","numDescendants":15
View the Source Wikipedia: Chrysemys
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Chrysemys is a genus of turtles in the family Emydidae.
Wikipedia: North American box turtle
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North American box turtles are land turtles of the genus Terrapene.
Wikipedia: Chelonoidis
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Chelonoidis is a genus of turtles in the tortoise family erected by Leopold Fitzinger in 1835.
Gopherus - Wikipedia
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Gopherus is a genus of fossorial tortoises commonly referred to as gopher tortoises.
Trachemys - Wikipedia
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Trachemys is a genus of turtles belonging to the family Emydidae.
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