Biology:Big-headed Amazon River turtle

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Short description: Species of turtle

Peltocephalus dumerilianus
Peltocephalus dumerilianus.jpg
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Podocnemididae
Genus: Peltocephalus
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835 [4]
Species:
P. dumerilianus
Binomial name
Peltocephalus dumerilianus
(Schweigger, 1812) [3]
Synonyms[1][5]
  • Emys dumeriliana
    Schweigger, 1812
  • Emys macrocephala
    Spix, 1824
  • Emys tracaxa
    Spix, 1824
  • Chelys (Hydraspis) lata
    Gray in Griffith, 1831
  • Emys icterocephala
    Gray in Griffith, 1831
  • Chelys (Hydraspis)
    dumerilliana     [sic]
    — Gray, 1831
  • Podocnemis dumeriliana
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Peltocephalus tracaxa
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Podocnemis tracaxa
    — Boulenger, 1889
  • Peltocephalus dumeriliana
    — Obst, 1985
  • Peltocephalus dumerilianus
    — Gorzula & Señaris, 1999

The big-headed Amazon River turtle (Peltocephalus dumerilianus),[5] also known as the big-headed sideneck, is a species of turtle in the family Podocnemididae. The species is monotypic within the genus Peltocephalus.[4]

Etymology

The specific name, dumerilianus, is in honor of French herpetologist André Marie Constant Duméril.[6]

Big-headed Amazon River turtle swimming

Geographic range

P. dumerilianus is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Pará), Colombia, French Guiana, Venezuela, Ecuador, and possibly in Peru.[5]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of P. dumerilianus are rivers and freshwater swamps.[5]

Reproduction

Like all other turtles, P. dumerilianus is oviparous.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). "Peltocephalus dumerilianus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T16511A5972664. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16511A5972664.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/16511/5972664. Retrieved 11 January 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php. 
  3. ↑ "Peltocephalus dumerilianus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=551901. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Peltocephalus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=551740. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Peltocephalus dumerilianus ". The Reptile Database.
  6. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Peltocephalus dumeriliana, p. 77).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). x + 311 pp. + Plates I-III. (Podocnemis tracaxa, p. 206).
  • Schweigger [AF] (1812). "Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum ". Königsberger Archiv für Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik 1: 271-368, 406–458. (Emys dumeriliana, new species, p. 300). (in Latin).

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