Table 1.

Selection of diagnostic sites of the 12S rRNA gene for Pelodiscus species (84 wild-caught individuals from Gong et al. 2018). Positions refer to the 400-bp-long reference alignment in the Supporting Information. G, H, and I are genetic lineages that represent putatively distinct taxa (Gong et al. 2018).

	n	13	14	20	34	96	222	223	224	225	234	327	330	384	385
P.variegatus sp. n.	4	T	T	T	T	C	T	T	T	T	A	C	T	G	C
P. axenaria	5	.	.	A	C	T	C	.	C	A	C	T	C	C	T
G	1	.	.	.	.	T	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
H	1	.	.	.	.	T	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
I	6	.	.	.	C	T	C	.	C	A	C	.	.	C	.
P. maackii	10	.	.	C	.	T	.	G	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
P. parviformis	8	C	C	C	C	T	.	G	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
P. sinensis	49	.	.	.	.	T	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	A/.	.