Podocnemis | |
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Yellow-spotted river turtle | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | Podocnemididae |
Genus: | Podocnemis Wagler 1830 |
Species | |
6 sp., see text |
Podocnemis is a genus of aquatic turtles commonly known as South American river turtles. The genus consists of six extant species occurring in tropical South America.[1] Three additional species are only known from fossils.
Species[edit]
These species are extant.
- Podocnemis erythrocephala – red-headed Amazon River turtle
- Podocnemis expansa – Arrau turtle
- Podocnemis lewyana – Magdalena River turtle
- Podocnemis sextuberculata – six-tubercled Amazon River turtle
- Podocnemis unifilis – yellow-spotted river turtle
- Podocnemis vogli – savanna side-necked turtle
Fossil species[edit]
The following three species are extinct:
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20151026072449im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Podocnemis_bassleri_AMNH_1662_cast.jpg/220px-Podocnemis_bassleri_AMNH_1662_cast.jpg)
Cast of the skull of the extinct species P. bassleri (AMNH 1662)
References[edit]
- ^ Podocnemis, The Reptile Database
- ^ a b Wood, R.C. (1997). Turtles. In Kay, R. F., Madden, R. H., Cifelli, R. L. y J. J. Flynn (eds)., Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
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