EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Phrynops vanderhaegei


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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 vanderhaegei (Vanderhaege's Toad-headed Turtle)
Original Description
Bour 1973 : 184
Holotype
MNHN 1977-50; photograph in Bour and Pauler 1987:22.
Type Locality
"probablement les environs d'Asunción au Paraguay" [= near Asunción, Paraguay]; restricted to "Tobati (25° 15'S, 57° 04'W), La Cordillera, Paraguay" by Bour and Pauler (1987:10).
Original name
Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei
Common Name
Vanderhaege's Toad-headed Turtle
Distribution
Rio Parana basin in southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina; possibly also in Uruguay and Bolivia
Comments
Subgenus Batrachemys. Considered by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:133) to be a subspecies of Phrynops tuberculatus and by McDiarmid and Foster (1987) to be a subspecies of Phrynops gibbus; however, Bour and Pauler (1987:10) have argued for full species status.
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