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    Species Accepted

    Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848

    Yellow-headed Sideneck

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
      Cágado-Zé-Prego Portuguese
      Gelbkopfamazonasschildkröte German
      Gulplettet Flodskildpadde Danish
      Pdocnémide de Cayenne French
      Peta de río Spanish
      Podocn French
      Podocnémide de Cayenne French
      Taricaya Spanish
      Terecay Spanish
      Terecaya Spanish

      Treatments

      2 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      108 results
      Erickson, J. & I. L. Kaefer. (2015). Multiple leucism in a nest of the yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle, Podocnemis unifilis. Salamandra 51 (3): 273-276.
      Mittermeier, R.A., and R.A. Wilson. (1974). Redescription of Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824), and Amazonian pelomedusid turtle. Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 28:147-162.
      Hoogmoed,M.S. and Gruber,U. (1983). Spix and Wagler type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the Natural History Musea in Munich (Germany) and Leiden (The Netherlands). Spixiana Suppl. 9: 319-415.
      Bernarde, Paulo Sérgio;, Reginaldo Assêncio Machado & Luiz Carlos Batista Turci. (2011). Herpetofauna da área do Igarapé Esperança na Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre – Brasil. Biota Neotropica 11 (3): 117-144.
      Naveda-Rodríguez, A., & Rubén Cueva, a. G. Z.-R. (2018). Space Use of Yellow-Spotted River Turtles (Podocnemis unifilis) in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Jun 2018, Vol. 17, No. 1: 37-43.
      Observation.org contributors. 2018. "Download species lists". Observation.org, Nature observations form around the world. est. 2008. Hisko de Vries (man). Observation International Foundation. https://observation.org/download.php?lang=en&local=xx
      Thorbjarnarson, J.B., N. Perez & T. Escalona. (1993). Nesting of Podocnemis unifilis in the Capanaparo River, Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 27 (3): 344-347.
      Da Cunha, Fernando Lima Rodrigues, Rafael Bernhard and Richard C. Vogt. (2014). Podocnemis erythrocephala, Podocnemis expansa, Podocnemis sextuberculata, Podocnemis unifilis (red-headed Amazon River turtle, giant South American River turtle, six-tubercled Amazon River turtle, yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle) coexistence. Herpetological Review 45 (2): 319.
      Siebenrock, F. (1902). Zur Systematik der Schildkrötengattung Podocnemis Wagl. Anzeiger Der Kaiserlichen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien, 27: 104-106.
      Fabrezi, M.; Manzano, A.; Abdala, V. & Zaher, H. (2009). Developmental basis of limb homology in Pleurodiran turtles, and the identity of the hooked element in the chelonian tarsus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 845–866.

      Citation

      Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 in undefined