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    Species Accepted

    Mesoclemmys dahli (Zangerl & Medem, 1958)

    Dahl's Toad-headed Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Mesoclemmys
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Carranchina Spanish
      Dahl's Toad-headed Turtle English
      Dahl-varangyteknős Hungarian
      Dahl’s Toadhead Turtle English
      Kolumbianische Froschkopfschildkröte German
      Kolumbianische Krötenkopfschildkröte German
      vousivka Dahlova Czech
      Колумбийская лягушковая черепаха Russian
      達氏蟾頭龜 Chinese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
      Stanford, C.B. et al. (2020). Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble. Current Biology 30: R721–R735.
      Zangerl, R., and F. Medem. (1958). A new species of chelid turtle, Phrynops (Batrachemys) dahli, from Colombia. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 375-390.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Vargas-Ramírez, M., J. Michaels, et al. (2012). Weak genetic divergence between the two South American Toad-headed Turtles Mesoclemmys dahli and M. zuliae (Testudines:Pleurodira: Chelidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 33(3-4): 373-385.
      Bour, R., & Zaher, H. (2005). A NEW SPECIES OF MESOCLEMMYS, FROM THE OPEN FORMATIONS OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL (CHELONII, CHELIDAE). Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 45 (24): 295-311.
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. (2025). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575.
      Zangerl, Rainer & F. Medem. 1958. A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae). Papéis avulsos de zoologia 45(24): 295–311.
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Medina, G. F., & Gladys Cárdenas-Arevalo, a. O. V. C.-M. (2011). Abundance, Home Range, and Movement Patterns of the Endemic Species Dahl’s Toad-Headed Turtle (Mesoclemmys dahli) in Cesar, Colombia. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Dec 2011, Vol. 10, No. 2: 228-236.

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