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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Austrochelidinae ()
genus...............Platemys (Twisted-necked Turtles)
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P. platycephala (Twist-necked Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Wagler 1830 : 135
- Common Name
- Twisted-necked Turtles
- Distribution
- As for the single species
- Comments
- Reduced to a monotypic genus by McBee et al. (1985) and Iverson (1986b:197), and substantiated by Derr et al. (1987:370). Reviewed by Ernst (1987). See Comment under Acanthochelys account.
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