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Bour, R. and Dubois, A. 1983. Statut nomenclatural et spécimens-types d`Emys pseudogeographica Gray, 1831 et d`Emys lesueuri Gray, 1831 (Reptilia, Chelonii, Emydidae). Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon 52:42–46.
Bour, R. and Dubois, A. 1986. Nomenclature ordinale et familiale des tortues (Reptilia). Note complémentaire. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 55:87-90.
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Bour, R., Pritchard, P., Cheke, A., Collie, J., Arnold, E.N., Meylan, P.A., Bury, R.B., Dodd, C.K., Jr., Kraus, O., McCarthy, C., Fleischer-Dogley, F., et al., Casale, P., Gaffney, E.S., Tatayah, V., Jones, C., Reynolds, R.P., Howell, K.M., Ng, P.K.L., Chellam, R., Palkovacs, E.P., and Gerlach, J. 2009. Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of Testudo gigantea Schweigger, 1812 (currently Geochelone (Aldabrachelys) gigantea; Reptilia, Testudines) (Case 3463; see BZN 66: 34–50, 80–87). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(2):169–186.
Bowen, B.W. and Karl, S.A. 2007. Population genetics and phylogeography of sea turtles. Molecular Ecology 16(23):4886–4907.
Bowen, B.W., Meylan, A.B., Ross, J.P., Limpus, C.J., Balazs, G.H., and Avise, J.C. 1992. Global population structure and natural history of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in terms of matriarchal phylogeny. Evolution 46:865–881.
Boycott, R.C. and Bourquin, O. 2000. The Southern African Tortoise Book. A Guide to Southern African Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles. Revised expanded edition. Pietermaritzburg: Interpak, 228 pp.
Branch, W.R. 1989. Homopus bergeri, nama or Berger's padloper (English), Bergerse skilpad (Afrikaans). In: Swingland, I.R. and Klemens, M.W. (Eds.). The Conservation Biology of Tortoises. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 5, pp. 75–77.
Branch, W.R. 1992. Homopus 'bergeri' – a wrong name for a new tortoise from southern Namibia. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 40:11.
Branch, W. 2008. Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles of Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publ., 128 pp.
Broadley, D.G. 1989. Geochelone pardalis, leopard tortoise (English), bergskilpad (Afrikaans). In: Swingland, I.R. and Klemens, M.W. (Eds.). The Conservation Biology of Tortoises. Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 5, pp. 43–46.
Broadley, D.G. 1993. A review of the southern African species of Kinixys Bell (Reptilia, Testudinidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36(6):41–52. 2018
Broin, F. de. 1988. Les tortues et le Gondwana. Examen des rapports entre le fractionnement du Gondwana et la dispersion géographique des tortues pleurodires à partir du Crétacé. Studia Palaeocheloniologica 2:103–142. 2019
Brophy, T.R. 2004. Geographic variation and systematics in the south-east Asian turtles of the genus Malayemys (Testudines: Bataguridae). Hamadryad 29:63-79.
Buhlmann, K.A., Akre, T.S.B., Iverson, J.B., Karapatakis, D., Mittermeier, R.A., Georges, A., Rhodin, A.G.J., van Dijk, P.P., and Gibbons, J.W. 2009. A global analysis of tortoise and freshwater turtle distributions with identification of priority conservation areas. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 8(2):116–149.
Burbidge, A.A. 1967. The biology of south-western Australian tortoises. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Western Australia. 2019
Burke, R.L., Leuteritz, T.E., and Wolf, A.E. 1996. Phylogenetic relationships of emydine turtles. Herpetologica 52:572–584.
Cabrera, M.R. 1998. Las Tortugas Continentales de Sudamerica Austral. Córdoba: BR Copias, 108 pp.
Cabrera, M.R. and Colantonio, S.E. 1997. Taxonomic revision of the South American subspecies of the turtle Kinosternon scorpioides. Journal of Herpetology 31(4):507–513.
Caccone, A., Gibbs, J.P., Ketmaier, V., Suatoni, E., and Powell, J.R. 1999. Origin and evolutionary relationships of giant Galápagos tortoises. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:13223-13228.
Caccone, A., Gentile, G., Gibbs, J.P., Fritts, T.H., Snell, H.L., Betts, J., and Powell, J.R. 2002. Phylogeography and history of giant Galápagos tortoises. Evolution 56(10):2052–2066.
Carretero, M.A., Znari, M., Harris, D.J., and Macé, J.C. 2005. Morphological divergence among populations of Testudo graeca from west-central Morocco. Animal Biology 55:259–279.
Cerdá-Ardura, A., Soberón-Mobarak, F., Mcgaugh, S.E., and Vogt, R.C. 2008. Apalone spinifera atra (Webb and Legler 1960) – black spiny softshell turtle, Cuatrociénegas softshell, tortuga concha blanda, tortuga negra de Cuatrociénegas. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., and Iverson, J.B. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 021.1-021.4, doi:10.3854/crm.5.021.atra.v1.2008, //iucn-tftsg.org/cbftt/.
Chandler, C.H. and Janzen, F.J. 2009. The phylogenetic position of the snapping turtles (Chelydridae) based on nucleotide sequence data. Copeia 2009:209–213.
Chen, H.G., Liu, W.B., and Zhang, X.J. 2005. Comparative analysis of mitochondrial DNA 12S rRNA region between Pelodiscus sinensis and Pelodiscus axenaria and their molecular marker for identification. Journal of Fisheries of China 29:318–322.
Chen, H.G., Liu, W.B., Li, J.Z., and Zhang, X.J. 2006. Comparative analysis of mitochondrial DNA cytb gene and their molecular identification markers in three species of soft-turtles. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica 30(4):380–385.
Chiari, Y., Thomas, M., Pedrono, M., and Vieites, D.R. 2005. Preliminary data on genetic differentiation within the Madagascar spider tortoise, Pyxis arachnoides (Bell, 1827). Salamandra 41:35–43. 2013
Chiari, Y., Hyseni, C., Fritts, T.H., Glaberman, S., Marquez, C., Gibbs, J.P., Claude, J., and Caccone, A. 2009. Morphometrics parallel genetics in a newly discovered and endangered taxon of Galápagos tortoise. PLoS One 4(7):e6272, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006272.
Ciofi, C., Wilson, G.A., Beheregaray, L.B., Marquez, C., Gibbs, J.P., Tapia, W., Snell, H.L., Caccone, A., and Powell, J.R. 2006. Phylogeographic history and gene flow among giant Galápagos tortoises on southern Isabela Island. Genetics 172:1727–1744.
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Daniels, S.R., Hofmeyr, M.D., Henen, B.T., and Crandall, K.A. 2007. Living with the genetic signature of Miocene induced change: evidence from the phylogeographic structure of the endemic angulate tortoise Chersina angulata. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45:915–926.
Daniels, S.R., Hofmeyr, M.D., Henen, B.T., and Baard, E.H.W. 2010. Systematics and phylogeography of a threatened tortoise, the speckled padloper. Animal Conservation 13:237–246.
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Echelle, A.A., Hackler, J.C., Lack, J.B., Ballard, S.R., Roman, J., Fox, S.F., Leslie, D.M., Jr., and Van Den Bussche, R.A. 2009. Conservation genetics of the alligator snapping turtle: cytonuclear evidence of range-wide bottleneck effects and unusually pronounced geographic structure. Conservation Genetics, doi:10.1007/s10592-009-9966-1.
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Ernst, C.H., and Laemmerzahl, A. 2002. Geographic variation in the Asian big-headed turtlePlatysternon megacephalum (Reptilia: Testudines: Platysternidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115:18–24.
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Ernst, C.H., Laemmerzahl, A.F., and Creque, T.R. 2006. A review of morphological and pattern variation in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta, in Missouri, USA, with an alternate hypothesis of the origin of Chrysemys picta marginata. Herpetological Bulletin 95:6–15.
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Farkas, B. and Webb, R.G. 2003. Rafetus leloii Ha Dinh Duc, 2000 – an invalid species of softshell turtle from Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam (Reptilia, Testudines, Trionychidae). Zoologische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 53:107–112.
Feldman, C.R. and Parham, J.F. 2002. Molecular phylogenetics of emydine turtles: taxonomic revision and the evolution of shell kinesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:388–398.
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Frazier, J. 2006. A neotype for the Aldabra tortoise, Testudo gigantea Schweigger, 1812. Herpetological Review 37:275–280.
Frazier, J. 2009. Case 3463: Testudo gigantea Schweigger, 1812 (currently Geochelone(Aldabrachelys) gigantea; Reptilia, Testudines): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by maintenance of a designated neotype, and suppression of Testudo dussumieri Gray, 1831 (currently Dipsochelys dussumieri). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(1):34–50.
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Fritz, U. and Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. 2007. When genes meet nomenclature: tortoise phylogeny and the shifting generic concepts of Testudo and Geochelone. Zoology 110:298–307.
Fritz, U. and Havas, P. 2006. Checklist of Chelonians of the World, at the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation. Dresden: German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and Museum of Zoology, 230 pp.
Fritz, U. and Havas, P. 2007. Checklist of Chelonians of the World. Vertebrate Zoology 57(2):149-368.
Fritz, U. and Kraus, O. 2008. Comments on “Chersine Merrem, 1820 and Chersina Gray, 1831: a nomenclatural survey by Bour and Ohler, Zootaxa, 1752: 66–68”. Zootaxa 1893:65–68.
Fritz, U. and Obst, F.J. 1996. Zur Kenntnis der Celebes-Erdschildkröte, Heosemys yuwonoi (McCord, Iverson and Boeadi, 1995). Herpetofauna 18(102):27–34. 2014
Fritz, U. and Pauler, I. 1999. Phrynops chacoensis Fritz & Pauler, 1992, ein Juniorsynonym von Platemys macrocephala Rhodin, Mittermeier & McMorris, 1984. Salamandra 35(1):53–56.
Fritz, U., Gaulke, M., and Lehr, E. 1997. Revision der südostasiatischen Dornschildkröten-Gattung Cyclemys Bell, 1834, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art. Salamandra 33(3):183–212.
Fritz, U., Siroky, P., Kami, H., and Wink, M. 2005b. Environmentally caused dwarfism or a valid species—is Testudo weissingeri Bour, 1996 a distinct evolutionary lineage? New evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genomic markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37:389–401.
Fritz, U., Barata, M., Busack, S.D., Fritzsch, G., and Castillo, R. 2006a. Impact of mountain chains, sea straits and peripheral populations on genetic and taxonomic structure of a freshwater turtle, Mauremys leprosa (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae). Zoologica Scripta 35:97–108.
Fritz, U., Auer, M., Bertolero, A., Cheylan, M., Fattizzo, T., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Sampayo, M.M., Pretus, J.L., Siroky, P., and Wink, M. 2006b. A rangewide phylogeography of Hermann’s tortoise, Testudo hermanni (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae): implications for taxonomy. Zoologica Scripta 35:531–543.
Fritz, U., Petzold, A., and Auer, M. 2006c. Osteology in the Cuora galbinifrons complex suggests conspecifity of C. bourreti and C. galbinifrons, with notes on shell osteology and phalangeal formulae within the Geoemydidae. Amphibia-Reptilia 27:195–205.
Fritz, U., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Siroky, P., Auer, M., Kami, H., Lehmann, J., Mazanaeva, L.F., Türkozan, O., and Wink, M. 2007. Phenotypic plasticity leads to incongruence between morphology-based taxonomy and genetic differentiation in western Palearctic tortoises (Testudo graeca complex; Testudines, Testudinidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 28:97–121.
Fritz, U., Ayaz, D., Buschbom, J., Kami, H.G., Mazanaeva, L.F., Aloufi, A.A., Auer, M., Rifai, L., Silic, T., and Hundsdörfer, A.K. 2008. Go east: phylogeographies of Mauremys caspica and M. rivulata – discordance of morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear genomic markers and rare hybridization. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:527–540.
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Fritz, U., Ayaz, D., Hundsdörfer, A.K., Kotenko, T., Guicking, D., Wink, M., Tok, C.V., Çiçek, K., and Buschbom, J. 2009b. Mitochondrial diversity of European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Anatolia and the Ponto-Caspian Region: multiple old refuges, hotspot of extant diversification and critically endangered endemics. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 9(2):100–114.
Fritz, U., Harris, D.J., Fahd, S., Rouag, R., Graciá Martínez, E., Giménez Casalduero, A., Siroky, P., Kalboussi, M., Jdeidi, T.B., and Hundsdörfer, A.K. 2009c. Mitochondrial phylogeography of Testudo graeca in the Western Mediterranean: old complex divergence in North Africa and recent arrival in Europe. Amphibia-Reptilia 30:63–80.
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