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)
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- 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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