EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Peltocephalus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Podocnemidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Peltocephalus (Big-headed Amazon River Turtles)
species
species list
P. dumerilianus (Big-headed Amazon River Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Duméril and Bibron 1835 : 377
- Common Name
- Big-headed Amazon River Turtles
- Distribution
- As for the single species
- Comments
- Frair et al. (1978) removed this taxon from the synonymy of Podocnemis.
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