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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Big-Headed Amazon River TurtleEducational resources on Big-Headed Amazon River TurtleBig-Headed Amazon River Turtle or Peltocephalus dumeriliana is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A1acd. IUCN Profile of the Big-Headed Amazon River Turtle EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Peltocephalus dumerilianus (Big ... Original Description Schweigger 1812: 300 Holotype Formerly in the MNHN, but apparently now lost; see Comment. Type Locality "America meridionali". Original name emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Peltocephalusdumerilianus/... EMYSystem Species Page: Peltocephalus dumerilianus (Big-headed Amazon ... Original Description: Schweigger 1812: 300: Type Locality "America meridionali". Holotype : Formerly in the MNHN, but apparently now lost; see Comment. emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Peltocephalusdumerilianus/Peltocephalusdumerilianus.html Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--15 Manual 3: A-301.009.003.001:1-2. GEOGRAPHIC CODE: BR, CO, EC, GF, PE, VE. COMMON NAME: Big-headed sideneck turtle, Big-headed Amazon River turtle, Cabezon. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst15.htm EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Peltocephalus (Big-headed Amazon River ... ...species list P. dumerilianus (Big-headed Amazon River Turtle) Original Description Duméril and Bibron 1835: 377 Common Name Big-headed Amazon River Turtles emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/genus/Peltocephalus/Peltocephalus.html Family Pelomedusidae--5 genera containing 25 species of Afro-American ... Genus Peltocephalus--1 sp. big-headed Amazon river turtle, Peltocephalus dumerilianus. Genus Pelusios--16 spp. African hinged terrapins. Genus Podocnemis--6 spp. South American side users.edinboro.edu/plindeman/pelomedusidae.html World Turtle Database Search this site emys.geo.orst.edu/main_pages/database.html Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Index Big-headed Amazon River turtle Big-headed sideneck turtle Big-headed turtle billabong, Macrochelodina biporcatus, C. Black caiman Black giant tortoise www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/turtcroclist/queryhitturt.htm CITES Big-headed Amazon River Turtle: II: PELOMEDUSIDAE: Pelusios spp. "African Side-Necked Turtles" III: PELOMEDUSIDAE: Pelusios adansonii: Adanson's Mud Turtle web.as.uky.edu/biology/faculty/palmer/cites.htm
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