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    Species Accepted

    Dermatemys mawii Gray, 1847

    Central American River Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Dermatemys
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Central American River Turtle English
      Dermatemyde de Mawe French
      Hicatee English
      Tabasco-Schildkröte German
      Tortue de Tabasco French
      Tortuga Blanca Spanish
      Tortuga Rivereña Centroamericana Spanish
      Tortuga-riverina centroamericana Spanish

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      Gray, John E. 1847. Description of a new genus of Emydae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History' 20: 59-60. Published in
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Reyes-Grajales, Eduardo; Matteo Cazzanelli, Nora P. López-León, Alejandra Sepúlveda-Lozada, Luis Antonio Muñoz Alonso & Rocío Rodiles-Hernández. (2023). The Importance of Riparian and Aquatic Resources in the Diet of Dermatemys mawii in a Lentic System in Southern Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Dec 2023 Vol. 22, No. 2: 137-145.
      Duméril, A. H. A. (1852). Description des reptiles nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus de la collection du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, et remarques sur la classification et les charactéres des reptiles. Archives Du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 6: 209-264.
      Mendyk, Robert W., and Brian R. Eisele. (2016). Preliminary notes on caudal prehensility in the Hicatee, Dermatemys mawii (Testudines: Dermatemydidae). Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 1026–1029.
      Legler, J. M., & Vogt, R. C. (2013). The Turtles of Mexico: Land and Freshwater Forms. University of California Press, 416 Pp.
      Bishop, Nichole D.; John Polisar, Peter J. Eliazar, Raymond R. Carthy & Karen A. Bjorndal. (2022). Diet of Dermatemys mawii, an Aquatic Turtle That Relies Heavily on Terrestrial Vegetation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Jun 2022 Vol. 21, No. 1: 37-45.
      Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson. (2015). The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329.
      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.
      Rangel-Mendoza, Judith A., Iris A. Sánchez-González, Marco. A. López-Luna, and Manuel Weber. (2014). Health and Aquatic Environment Assessment of Captive Central American River Turtles, Dermatemys mawii, at Two Farms in Tabasco, Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Jul 2014, Vol. 13, No. 1: 96-109.

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