FIGURE 1. Mitochondrial phylogeny of 392 hinged terrapins (Pelusios spp.), rooted with Pelomedusa olivacea. Shown is an ML tree based on the unpartitioned concatenated dataset (2311 bp). Numbers at nodes are bootstrap values and posterior probabilities from a BI tree with similar topology (unpartitioned concatenated dataset). Asterisks are maximum support under both approaches. Clades collapsed to cartoons. For all four full trees, see Figures S1–S4 (partitioned and unpartitioned datasets, showing intraclade branching patterns). Genetic divergences within P. adansonii, P. niger, P. hyneki tanganyika subsp. nov., and P. subniger sensu stricto are probably overestimated due to a few short DNA sequences from degraded or historical samples (see long branches of respective samples in Figs S1–S4). Part of the P. castaneus/P. chapini clade shown twice to indicate additional support values. Colors for clades correspond to Figures 2–4; P. bechuanicus showed no variation, which is why a bar is used to display the green color. Inset picture: Pelusios subniger sensu stricto, photo: Hynek Prokop.

Published as part of Široký, Pavel, Bilbija, Branka, Paetzold, Claudia, Kehlmaier, Christian & Fritz, Uwe, 2025, Two new African hinged terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelusios), pp. 301-317 in Zootaxa 5717 (3) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5717.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17890370