EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Platemys platycephala


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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Austrochelidinae ()
genus...............Platemys (Twisted-necked Turtles)
species..............Platemys platycephala (Twist-necked Turtle)
Original Description
Schneider 1792 : 261
Holotype
Not located
Type Locality
"Ost-Indien" [= East Indies (in error)]; restricted to "Cayenne, French Guiana" by Ernst (1983d:350)
Original name
Testudo platycephala, Testudo planiceps
Common Name
Twist-necked Turtle
Distribution
Orinoco to Amazon river basins in Venezuela, Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, the Guianas, and Brazil
Comments
Reviewed by Ernst (1983d, 1987) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). See Comment under Acanthochelys macrocephala. Pritchard and Trebbau (1984) discuss the problem caused by Schneider's (1792) use of two names for the same species.
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