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Original
Description |
Schweigger 1812 : 299 |
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Type
Locality |
"America meridionali" [= South America] |
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Syntypes |
(3 specimens according to the original description) MNHN 7997 is probably one of the types according to R. Bour pers. comm. |
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Original name |
Emys expansa |
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Common
name |
South American River Turtle |
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Distribution |
Orinoco and Essequibo to Amazon River drainages of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, northern Brazil, and northern Bolivia |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Groombridge (1982) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). See Comment under Podocnemis unifilis. |
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