Manouria

Short description: Genus of tortoises

Manouria

Manouria emys
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Testudines
Suborder:  | Cryptodira
Superfamily:  | Testudinoidea
Family:  | Testudinidae
Genus:  | Manouria
Gray, 1854

Manouria is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. The genus was erected by John Edward Gray in 1854.

## Species

The following five species are recognized as being valid, two of which are extant,[1] and three of which are extinct:

Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution

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| Asian forest tortoise | Manouria emys (Schlegel & S. Müller, 1844) | Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
| impressed tortoise | Manouria impressa (Günther, 1882) | Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Northeast India.

* †Manouria sondaari Karl & Staesche, 2007 – a giant land tortoise from Luzon Island, Philippines[2][3] however, Rhodin et al. (2015) transferred this species to the genus Megalochelys.[4]
* †Manouria punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1889) – a fossil tortoise from Siwaliks, India[4]
* †Manouria oyamai Takahashi, Otsuka & Hirayama , 2003 – a fossil tortoise from Ryukyu Islands, Japan[4]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Manouria.

## References

1. ↑ "Manouria". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. ↑ Karl, Hans-Volker; Staesche, Ulrich (2007). "Fossile Riesen-Landschildkröten von den Philippinen und ihre paläogeographische Bedeutung [= Fossil Giant Land Tortoises from the Philippines and their paleogeographic importance]". Geologischesahrbuch A 160: 171–197. (Manouria sondaari, new species). (in German with abstract in English).
3. ↑ Staesche, Ulrich (coordinator) (2007). Fossile Schildkröten aus vier Ländern in drei Kontinenten: Deutschland, Türkei, Niger, Philippen [= Fossil Turtles from Four Countries on Three Continents: Germany, Turkey, Niger, and the Philippines]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, Reihe B, Heft 98 [= Series B, Issue 98]. 197 pp. ISBN:978-3-510-95967-9. http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/artno/186029800 (in German).
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Anders G.J. Rhodin; Scott Thomson; Georgios L. Georgalis; Hans-Volker Karl; Igor G. Danilov; Akio Takahashi; Marcelo S. de la Fuente; Jason R. Bourque et al. (2015). "Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians". Chelonian Research Monographs 5 (8): 000e.1–66. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015. https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1637061/1/Rhodin et at., TEWG, 2015 - Copia.pdf.

## Further reading

* Gray, J. E. (1854). "Description of a New Genus and some New Species of Tortoises". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1852: 133–135. (Manouria, new genus, p. 133).

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