EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Phrynops raniceps
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Austrochelidinae ()
genus...............Phrynops (Toad-headed Turtles)
species..............Phrynops raniceps (Amazon Toad-headed Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1855 : 55
- 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).
- Type Locality
- "Brazils; Para"; "Parà, Brésil" according to Bour and Pauler (1987:8)
- Original name
- Hydraspis raniceps
- Common Name
- Amazon Toad-headed Turtle
- Distribution
- Upper Orinoco to Amazon river basins in eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia
- 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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