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    Peltocephalus dumerilianus (Schweigger, 1812)

    Big-headed Amazon River Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Peltocephalus
    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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      Acanguaçu Portuguese
      Big-headed Amazon River Turtle English
      Big-headed Sideneck English
      Big-headed Sideneck Turtle English
      Cabezón Spanish
      Cabeçuda Portuguese
      Cabeçudo Portuguese
      Capitari (machos) Portuguese
      Dumerils Schienenschildkröte German
      Duméril-folyamteknős Hungarian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      40 results
      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.
      Siebenrock, F. (1902). Zur Systematik der Schildkrötengattung Podocnemis Wagl. Anzeiger Der Kaiserlichen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Wien, 27: 104-106.
      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.
      Gentil E, de Medeiros LA, Vogt RC, & Barnett AA. (2021). Biology of the Big-headed Amazon River Turtle, Peltocephalus dumerilianus (Schweigger, 1812) (Testudines, Pleurodira): the basal extant Podocnemididae species. Herpetozoa 34: 207-222.
      Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
      RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK. (2012). Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64.
      Williams, E. E. (1954). A key and description of the living species of the genus Podocnemis (sensu Boulenger) (Testudines, Pelomedusidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 111 (8): 277-295.

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