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. Pectoral scutes rectangular with wide midseam contact. Temporal scale divided on left side, undivided on right side of head. Two small barbels under chin. Carapace and plastron dark brown. Dorsal side of soft parts and entire forelegs dark grey, ventral side of hind legs light grey. Tail short.
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:
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Senckenberg-Museum,
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(
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56160,
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, males, same data as holotype);
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für
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,
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(
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15697, juvenile,
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W Wau
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,
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,
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)
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.
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<subSubSection id="0BB16502F926FFD1FF24FE2BFD0AFDA7" pageId="17" pageNumber="540" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FF24FE2BFE66FE13" bold="true" box="[199,431,403,428]" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Derivatio nominis:</emphasis>
We dedicate this species to Georg August Schweinfurth (
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<date id="37151049F926FFD1FA61FE2CFE9DFE6F" pageId="17" pageNumber="540" value="1925-09-19">19 September 1925</date>
) who was the last of the great explorers of Africa. Schweinfurth collected the oldest of the
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(ZMB 15697) during his famous third Africa expedition (18681871) “inside the heart of Africa” (
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) in present-day
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.
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<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FF24FD9BFEABFD83" bold="true" box="[199,354,547,572]" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Distribution:</emphasis>
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(
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Vargas-Ramírez
<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FCACFD9DFC41FD82" box="[847,904,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">et al.</emphasis>
2010
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) and
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(this study).
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<subSubSection id="0BB16502F926FFD1FF24FDF0FE27FCE2" pageId="17" pageNumber="540" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FF24FDF0FEF4FDDF" bold="true" box="[199,317,584,608]" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Remarks:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FEABFDFFFDBCFDDF" box="[328,629,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Pelomedusa schweinfurthi</emphasis>
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corresponds to mtDNA lineage IV of
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Vargas-Ramírez
<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FAE1FDF1FAF6FDDF" box="[1282,1343,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">et al.</emphasis>
(2010)
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, which was previously only recorded from the
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. Our new 12S sequences of the type specimens provide evidence for the occurrence in
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. The temporal scale is divided on the left side of the head in the
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, but undivided on the right side, as it is in all
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. The largest specimen (SMF 56162) has a straight carapacial length of
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. Unlike many other
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species
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,
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is overall quite dark coloured, with a predominantly brown plastron.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="71DFEA9BF926FFD1FF24FCA7FE38FC87" box="[199,497,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Pelomedusa schweinfurthi</emphasis>
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belongs to the northern species group and is with high support sister to candidate species B from
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(
<figureCitation id="DB902A0CF926FFD1FE78FCFCFE15FCE2" box="[411,476,836,861]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,999,1021]" captionTargetBox="[167,1426,219,969]" captionTargetId="figure-480@3.[151,1436,199,975]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Maximum Likelihood tree for helmeted terrapins (Pelomedusa spp.) using 1848 bp of mitochondrial DNA (12S, cyt b, ND4+tRNAs), rooted with Pelusios sinuatus. Terminal clades collapsed to cartoons. The topology of the Bayesian 50% majority rule consensus tree was identical. Numbers along branches indicate bootstrap support and clade support under BI (posterior probabilities) greater than 50 or 0.95, respectively. Asterisks represent maximum support under both methods. Colours and symbol correspond to the map (Fig. 2). On the right, proposed species names indicated; in brackets, mtDNA lineages. For clade membership of individual samples, see Table S1. The questionable sample MTD T 5484 from Swellendam District (Western Cape), South Africa, is highlighted in red (see text). The shown terrapins are Pelomedusa neumanni (top; Kakamega, Kenya) and P. galeata (bottom; Port Elizabeth, South Africa—photos: H. Prokop and W.R. Branch)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4915085" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4915085/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="540">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
).
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