After Uetz, Etzold & Chenna, 1995-2005 [“The TIGR Reptile Database ” (former EMBL Reptile Database)]

    Pelomedusa Gray, 1844
        Testudo
        Emys
        Pentonyx
        Pentonix

    Pelomedusa subrufa (Lacépède, 1788)

        Testudo subrufa Lacépède 1788
        Testudo galeata Schoepff, 1792
        Testudo badia Donndorf, 1798 
        Testudo rubicunda Suckow, 1798 
        Emys olivacea Schweigger, 1812 (non E. olivacea Gray, 1855)
        Pentonyx capensis Duméril & Bibron, 1835 (nom. subst. pro T. sufrufa Lacépède)
        Pentonyx gehafie Rüppell, 1835
        Pelomedusa subrufa (Lacépède); Gray, 1844
        Pentonix americana Cornalia, 1849
        Pelomedusa mozambica Peters (nomen nudum) in Gray, 1855 (?)
        Pelomedusa mossambicensis Peters (nom. nud.) in Lichtenstein, 1856 (?)
        Pelomedusa nigra Gray, 1863
        Pelomedusa gasconi Rochebrune, 1884
        Pelomedusa galeata (Schoepff); Boulenger, 1889
        Pelomedusa galeata var. disjuncta Vaillant & Grandidier, 1910
        Pelomedusa galeata (Schoepff); Schmidt, 1919
        Pelomedusa galeata orangensis Hewitt, 1935
        Pelomedusa galeata devilliersi Hewitt, 1935
        Pelomedusa galeata damarensis Hewitt, 1935
        Pelomedusa subrufa wettsteini Mertens, 1937
        Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea (Schweigger); Loveridge, 1941
        Testudo emys arabica N. Ehrenberg in Stresemann, 1954
        Pelomedusa subrufa (Lacépède); Auerbach, 1987
        Pelomedusa subrufa (Lacépède); Glaw & Vences, 1994
        Pelomedusa subrufa subrufa (Lacépède); Broadley & Howell, 1991
        Pelomedusa subrufa (Lacépède, 1788); Uetz, Etzold & Chenna, 1995-2005

        Pelomedusa subrufa subrufa (Lacépède, 1788)
            Pelomedusa subrufa subrufa (Lacépède); Broadley & Howell, 1991

        Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea (Schweigger, 1812)
            Emys olivacea Schweigger, 1812 (non E. olivacea Gray, 1855)
            Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea (Schweigger); Loveridge, 1941

        Pelomedusa subrufa nigra Gray, 1863
            Pelomedusa nigra Gray, 1863

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