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Original
Description |
Troschel 1848 : 647 |
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Type
Locality |
"im Rupununi und Takutu " [= rivers in Guyana (formerly British Guiana)] |
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Holotype |
ZMB 142; now lost. |
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Original name |
Podocnemis unifilis |
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Common
name |
Yellow-spotted River Turtle |
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Distribution |
Orinoco to Amazon River drainages of Venezuela, eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, the Guianas, Brazil, and northern Bolivia |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Groombridge (1982) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). Mittermeier and Wilson (1974) and Wermuth and Mertens (1977) suggested that Emys cayennensis Schweigger (1812:298) may be an older available name for this species. Based on Fretey's (1977:111) information about the type species of Emys cayennensis Schweigger and Emys dumeriliana Schweigger, Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983:346) concluded that E. cayennensis was a junior synonym of P. expansa and that E. dumeriliana was an older available name for P. unifilis. However, following Roger Bour's suggestion, Pritchard and Trebbau (1984:72) showed that the holotype of E. cayennensis (MNHN 8359) is a P. unifilis. The proper name for this species may thus be P. cayennensis, although the more stable name P. unifilis is retained here until the ICZN can act on the problem. |
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