Trionyx triunguis ( Forskål, 1775 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 23

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Trionyx triunguis ( Forskål, 1775) View in CoL

Testudo triunguis Forskål, 1775: 9 . Type locality: “In Nilo rarior” ( Nile River , Egypt).

Testudo striata Suckow, 1798: 37 (partim).

Trionyx aegytiacus Geoffroy, 1809: 116 (nomen substitutum pro Testudo triunguis ).

Trionyx niloticus Gray, 1831: 46 View in CoL (nomen substitutum pro Testudo triunguis ).

Trionyx aegytiacus Cuvier, 1831: 18 . Type locality: Egypt.

Trionyx labiatus Bell, 1837 : unnumbered. Type locality: Sierra Leone.

Trionyx mortoni Hallowell, 1844: 120 View in CoL . Type locality: Africa.

Aspidonectes aspilus Cope, 1860a: 295 View in CoL . Type locality: “Rembo and Ovenga rivers, …Fernando Vas, Equatorial West Africa”. Fernan Vaz , Gabon.

Fordia africana Gray, 1869: 219 View in CoL . Type locality: Nile River at Khartoum, Sudan.

Trionyx triunguis rudolfianus Deraniyagala, 1948: 30 . Type locality: Ferguson’s Gulf , Lake Rudolf, Kenya.

Distribution. It occurs both in the eastern Mediterranean and in African regions south of the Sahara Desert. In the Mediterranean it ranges along the eastern coastal areas, from Turkey to Israel, whereas in Africa it extends from West Africa to East Africa, southwards to the north of Namibia and northwards to Egypt (Nile River). In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded from Río Muni at Monte Mitra in Monte Alén National Park ( Gonwouo & Nsang 2005) and also it is expected to be found close to the Cameroonian border (Campo River) ( Rhodin et al. 2017) ( Map 3B View MAPS 3 ).

Comments. The current known record of this species is based on a single specimen from Monte Mitra ( Gonwouo & Nsang 2005).

Specimens examined. No specimens of this species were found in the examined collections.

References

Cope, E. D. (1860 a) Notes and descriptions of foreign reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 11, 294 - 297.

Deraniyagala, P. (1948) Some scientific results of two visits to Africa. Spolia Zeylanica, 25, 1 - 42.

Forskal, P. (1775) Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; Quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskal. Hauniae, Molleri et filii, Copenhagen, xxxiv + 164 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 2154

Gonwouo, N. L. & Nsang, A. (2005) An assessment of the reptiles and amphibians of the Monte Mitra forest, Monte Alen National Park. In: Sunderland, T. C. H. (Ed.), A Biodiversity Assessment of the Monte Mitra Forest, Monte Alen National Park, Equatorial Guinea. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., pp. 32 - 49.

Gray, J. E. (1831) Description of a new species of chamaeleon discovered by Capt. Owen in Africa. Zoological Miscellany, 1, 7.

Gray, J. E. (1869) Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata), and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1869, 165 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1869. tb 07312. x

Hallowell, E. (1844) Description of new species of reptiles from Africa. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2, 118 - 120.

Rhodin, A. G. J., Iverson, J. B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A. & Shaffer, H. B. (2017) Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. In: Rhodin, A. G. J., Iverson, J. B., van Dijk, P. P., Stanford, C. B., Goode, E. V., Buhlmann, K. A. & Mittermeier, R. A. (Eds.), Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs, 8, 9 - 14.

Suckow, G. A. (1798) Anfangsgrunde der Theoretischen und Angewandten Naturgeschichte der Thiere. Dritter Theil. Von den Amphibien. Weidmannischen Buchhandlung, Leipzig, 298 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62582