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    Species Accepted

    Hydromedusa maximiliani (Mikan, 1825)

    Brazilian Snake-necked Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Hydromedusa
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Brasilianische Schlangenhalsschildkröte German
      Brazilian Snake-necked Turtle English
      Cágado-Pescoço-de-Cobra Portuguese
      Cágado-da-Serra Portuguese
      Maximilian's Snake-necked Turtle English
      Maximilian’s Snake-headed Turtle English

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      Gray, J. E. (1873). On the original form, development, and cohesion of the bones of the sternum of chelonians; with notes on the skeleton of Sphargis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 11: 161-172.
      Martins, F.I. & F.L. Souza. (2008). Estimates of Growth of the Atlantic Rain Forest Freshwater Turtle Hydromedusa maximiliani (Chelidae). Journal of Herpetology 42 (1): 54-60.
      Mikan, J. C. (1825). Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis [...] Fasciculus Quartus. Antonii Strauss. Wien.
      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.
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Gray, J. E. (1873). Observations on chelonians, with descriptions of new genera and species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 11: 289-308.
      Günther, A. (1884). Contribution to our knowledge of Hydromedusa, a genus of South-American freshwater turtles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 14: 421-425.
      Peters, & Wilhem Carl Hartwig. (1839). Zur Osteologie der Hydromedusa maximiliani. Müller’s Arch. F. Anat. U. Physiol. 1839: 280-289, 1 Plate.
      Freitas, Marco Antonio de; Arthur Diesel Abegg, Thais Figueiredo Santos Silva, Patrícia Mendes Fonseca, Breno Hamdan, Thiago Filadelfo. (2019). Herpetofauna of Serra do Timbó, an Atlantic Forest remnant in the State of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 12: 245-260.
      FORLANI, M. C., BERNARDO, P. H., HADDAD, C. B. F., & ZAHER, H. (2010). Herpetofauna of the Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 10 (3): 265-309.

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