EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Podocnemis lewyana
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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 lewyana (Magdalena River Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Duméril 1852 : 242
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) MNHN 8905; MNHN 8360; MNHN 8905 designated lectotype by Williams 1954a:281, who identified MNHN 8360 as P. vogli.
- Type Locality
- "Santa Fé de Bogotá [Colombia], . . . de la République de Venezuella" [latter in error]
- Original name
- Podocnemis lewyana
- Common Name
- Magdalena River Turtle
- Distribution
- Río Magdalena basin of Colombia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Groombridge (1982).
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