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Original
Description |
Bour 1973 : 184 |
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Type
Locality |
"probablement les environs d'Asunción au Paraguay" [= near Asunción, Paraguay]; restricted to "Tobati (25° 15'S, 57° 04'W), La Cordillera, Paraguay" by Bour and Pauler (1987:10). |
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Holotype |
MNHN 1977-50; photograph in Bour and Pauler 1987:22. |
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Original name |
Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei |
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Common
name |
Vanderhaege's Toad-headed Turtle |
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Distribution |
Rio Parana basin in southern Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina; possibly also in Uruguay and Bolivia |
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Comments |
Subgenus Batrachemys. Considered by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:133) to be a subspecies of Phrynops tuberculatus and by McDiarmid and Foster (1987) to be a subspecies of Phrynops gibbus; however, Bour and Pauler (1987:10) have argued for full species status. |
