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FIGURE 5 in A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species

  • 1. Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, 01109 Dresden, Germany
  • 2. Department of Herpetology, Port Elizabeth Museum, P.O. Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa & Department of Zoology, P.O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa
  • 3. Unit for Environmental Science & Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
  • 4. Chelonian Biodiversity and Conservation, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa
  • 5. P.O. Box 30566, Windhoek, Namibia
  • 6. Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackého tř. 1/3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic

Description

FIGURE 5. Dorsal and ventral aspects of the holotype of Pelomedusa somalica sp. nov. (BMNH 1970.1481, adult, Borama district, Awdal, Somaliland/Somalia; top) and of Pelomedusa variabilis sp. nov. (SMF 58075, subadult male, Gold Coast, Ghana; bottom). Scale bars, 3 cm. Photos: A. Petzold and E. Morawa.

Notes

Published as part of Petzold, Alice, Vargas-Ramírez, Mario, Kehlmaier, Christian, Vamberger, Melita, Branch, William R., Preez, Louis Du, Hofmeyr, Margaretha D., Meyer, Leon, Schleicher, Alfred, Široký, Pavel & Fritz, Uwe, 2014, A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 523-548 in Zootaxa 3795 (5) on page 541, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4915083

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