| African helmeted turtle
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| Photographed in Uganda
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Reptilia
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| Order:
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Testudines
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| Suborder:
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Pleurodira
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| Family:
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Pelomedusidae
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| Genus:
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Pelomedusa
Wagler, 1830
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| Species:
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P. subrufa
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| Binomial name
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Pelomedusa subrufa
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| Synonyms
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- ? Testudo planitia
Meuschen, 1778
- Testudo subrufa
Lacépède, 1788
- Testudo galeata
Schoepff, 1792
- Testudo badia
Donndorff, 1798
- Testudo rubicunda
Suckow, 1798
- Emys galeata
— Schweigger, 1812
- Emys olivacea
Schweigger, 1812
- Emys subrufa
— Schweigger, 1812
- Hydraspis galeata
— Bell, 1828
- Pelomedusa galeata
— Wagler, 1830
- Pelomedusa subrufa
— Wagler, 1830
- Chelys (Hydraspis) subrufa
— Gray, 1831
- Hydraspis subrufa
— Gray, 1831
- Pentonyx capensis
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
- Pentonyx galeata
— A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
- Emys (Emys) capensis
— Fitzinger, 1835
- Hydraspis (Pelomedusa) galeata
— Fitzinger, 1835
- Hydraspis (Pelomedusa) olivacea
— Fitzinger, 1835
- Hydraspis (Pelomedusa) planitia
— Fitzinger, 1835
- Pentonyx gehafie
Rüppell, 1835
- Pelomedusa gehafiae [sic]
Gray, 1844
(ex errore)
- Pentonyx americana
Cornalia, 1849
- Pelomedusa mossambicensis
W. Peters, 1856
(nomen nudum)
- Pelomedusa mozambica
W. Peters, 1856
(nomen nudum)
- Pelomedusa nigra
Gray, 1863
- Pelomedusa gasconi
Rochebrune, 1884
- Pelomedusa galeata damarensis
Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata devilliersi
Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata galeata
— Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata nigra
— Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata orangensis
Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata subrufa
— Hewitt, 1935
- Pelomedusa galeata gehafie
— Parker, 1936
- Pelomedusa subrufa subrufa
— Mertens, 1937
- Pelomedusa subrufa damarensis
— Mertens, 1937
- Pelomedusa subrufa gehafie
— Mertens, 1937
- Pelomedusa subrufa wettsteini
Mertens, 1937
- Pelomedusa subrufa orangensis
— Hewitt, 1937
- Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea
— Loveridge, 1941
- Pelomedusa subrufa damaranus [sic]
Heck, 1955
(ex errore)
- Pelomedusa subrufa nigra
— Bour, 1986
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The African helmeted turtle (Pelomedusa subrufa), also commonly known as the marsh terrapin, the crocodile turtle, or in the pet trade as the African side-necked turtle, is a species of omnivorous side-necked terrapin in the family Pelomedusidae. The species naturally occurs in fresh and stagnant water bodies throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa, and in southern Yemen.