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Original
Description |
Schneider 1792 : 261 |
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Type
Locality |
"Ost-Indien" [= East Indies (in error)]; restricted to "Cayenne, French Guiana" by Ernst (1983d:350) |
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Holotype |
Not located |
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Original name |
Testudo platycephala, Testudo planiceps |
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Common
name |
Twist-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
Orinoco to Amazon river basins in Venezuela, Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, northern Bolivia, the Guianas, and Brazil |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Ernst (1983d, 1987) and Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). See Comment under Acanthochelys macrocephala. Pritchard and Trebbau (1984) discuss the problem caused by Schneider's (1792) use of two names for the same species. |
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