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Original
Description |
Gray 1855 : 55 |
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Type
Locality |
"Brazils; Para"; "Parà, Brésil" according to Bour and Pauler (1987:8) |
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Holotype |
Not stated; BMNH 1947.3.5.92 designated lectotype by Bour and Pauler 1987:8, after Boulenger 1889:219; figured in Gray 1855:Plate XXIII; figure reproduced in Bour and Pauler 1987:21). |
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Original name |
Hydraspis raniceps |
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Common
name |
Amazon Toad-headed Turtle |
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Distribution |
Upper Orinoco to Amazon river basins in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia |
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Comments |
Subgenus Batrachemys. Removed from the synonymy of Phrynops nasutus by Bour and Pauler (1987). Includes Phrynops wermuthi Mertens (1969c:132) according to Bour and Pauler (1987). |
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