EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Podocnemis expansa
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Podocnemidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Podocnemis (South American Side-necked River Turtles)
species..............Podocnemis expansa (South American River Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Schweigger 1812 : 299
- Syntypes
- (3 specimens according to the original description) MNHN 7997 is probably one of the types according to R. Bour pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- "America meridionali" [= South America]
- Original name
- Emys expansa
- Common Name
- South American River Turtle
- Distribution
- Orinoco and Essequibo to Amazon River drainages of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, northern Brazil, and northern Bolivia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Groombridge (1982) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). See Comment under Podocnemis unifilis.
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