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    Species Accepted

    Erymnochelys madagascariensis (Grandidier, 1867)

    Madagascan Big-headed Side-necked Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Erymnochelys
    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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      Bihara Malagasy
      Madagascan Big-headed Side-necked Turtle English
      Madagascan Big-headed Turtle English
      Madagascar Big-headed Turtle English
      Madagascar Sideneck Turtle English
      Madagaskar-Schienenschildkröte German
      Madagassische Schienenschildkröte German
      Podocnémide de Madagascar French
      Re-re Malagasy
      Rere Malagasy

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
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      Boettger, O. (1893) Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senck- enbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt-am-Main. I. Teil (Rhynchocephalen, Schildkroten, Krokodile, Eidechsen, Chamaleons). Knauer, Frankfurt, 140 pp.
      Castellano, Christina M.; Anders G.J. Rhodin, Michael Ogle, Russell A. Mittermeier, Herilala Randriamahazo, Rick Hudson, and Richard E. Lewis, Eds. (2014). Turtles on the Brink in Madagascar: Proceedings of Two Workshops on the Status, Conservation, and Biology of Malagasy Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs, Doi: 10.3854/Crm.6.
      Siebenrock, F. (1902). Zur Systematik der Schildkrötengattung Podocnemis Wagl. Anzeiger Der Kaiserlichen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien, 27: 104-106.
      Gardner CJ, Raxworthy CJ, Metcalfe K, Raselimanana AP, Smith RJ, & Davies ZG. (2015). Comparing Methods for Prioritising Protected Areas for Investment: A Case Study Using Madagascar’s Dry Forest Reptiles. PLoS One 10 (7): E0132803, Doi:10.1371/Journal.Pone.0132803.
      Wermuth, H., and R. Mertens. (1977). Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynchocephalia. Das Tierreich. Berlin. 100: I-Xxvii, 1-174.
      RAFELIARISOA, T., GARY SHORE, SHANNON ENGBERG, & EDWARD LOUIS JR and RICK BRENNEMAN. (2006). PRIMER NOTE: Characterization of 11 microsatellite marker loci in the Malagasy big-headed turtle (Erymnochelys madagascariensis). Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 1228–1230.
      WHITE, NINA F.D.; HOLLY MENNELL, GEORGIA POWER, DOMINIC EDWARDS, LUKE CHRIMES, LANCE WOOLAVER, JULIETTE VELOSOA, RANDRIAMAHITA, RICHARD MOZAVELO, TSILAVO HASINA RAFELIARISOA, GERALD KUCHLING, JAVIER LOPEZ, ERNEST BEKARANY, NAMOTOA CHARLES, RICHARD YOUNG, RICHARD LEWIS, MICHAEL W. BRUFORD & PABLO OROZCO-TERWENGEL. (2022). A population genetic analysis of the Critically Endangered Madagascar big-headed turtle, Erymnochelys madagascariensis across captive and wild populations. Scientific Reports 12(1): 8740.
      Bonin, F., Devaux, B., & Dupré, A. (2006). Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 Pp.
      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.

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