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    Species Accepted

    Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824)

    Red-headed Amazon River Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Podocnemis
    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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      Calalumã Portuguese
      Chimpire Spanish
      Chipiro Spanish
      Irapuca Portuguese
      Podocnémide à tête rouge French
      Red-headed Amazon River Turtle English
      Red-headed Amazon Side-necked Turtle English
      Red-headed River Turtle English
      Red-headed Sideneck English
      Rotkopf-Schienenschildkröte German

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      39 results
      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.
      Gorzula, Stefan, Senaris, & Celsa, J. (1999). In: Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I: a data base. Scientia Guaianae, Caracas, No. 8 [1998], 269+ Pp.; ISBN 980-6020-48-0.
      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.
      Bour, & Roger. (2006). Types of Podocnemidae in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Emys 13 (1): 27-40.
      Herz, M. (2014). Begegnungen mit Schildkröten im venezolanischen Bundesstaat Amazonas. Teil 1: Wasserschildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (110): 52-59.
      Cornejo-Páramo, P., Lira-Noriega, A., Ramírez-Suástegui, C. et al. (2020). Sex determination systems in reptiles are related to ambient temperature but not to the level of climatic fluctuation. BMC Evol Biol 20: 103.
      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.
      Magalhães, Marcela S.; Richard C. Vogt, José Fernando M. Barcellos, Carlos Eduardo B. Moura, and Ronis Da Silveira. (2014). Morphology of the Digestive Tube of the Podocnemididae in the Brazilian Amazon. Herpetologica Dec 2014, Vol. 70, No. 4: 449-463.
      Spix, J.B. and J.G. Wagler. (1824). Herpetology of Brazil. Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 400 Pp.
      Gray, J. E. (1830). Spicilegia Zoologica. Part 2. Treüttel, Würtz, London.

      Citation

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