Phrynops geoffroanus

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Phrynops geoffroanus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Phrynops
Species:
P. geoffroanus
Binomial name
Phrynops geoffroanus
(Schweigger, 1812) [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]
Species Synonymy
  • Emys geoffroana
    Schweigger, 1812
  • Emys depressa
    Merrem, 1820
  • Emys viridis
    Spix, 1824
  • Chelodina geoffroana
    Fitzinger, 1826
  • Phrynops geoffroanus
    Wagler, 1830
  • Chelys (Hydraspis) depressa
    Gray, 1831
  • Chelys (Hydraspis) viridis
    — Gray, 1831
  • Emys geoffroyana
    Gray, 1831
    (ex errore)
  • Hydraspis depressa
    — Gray, 1831
  • Hydraspis viridis
    — Gray, 1831
  • Platemys geoffroana
    — Wagler, 1833
  • Platemys geoffreana
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
    (ex errore)
  • Platemys neuwiedii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Platemys waglerii
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Hydraspis (Phrynops) geoffroana
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Phrynops geoffroana
    — Fitzinger, 1835
  • Emys geoffroiana
    Temminck & Schlegel, 1835
    (ex errore)
  • Hydraspis wagleri
    — Gray, 1844(ex errore)
  • Phrynops geoffroyana
    — Gray, 1844
  • Hydraspis geoffroyana
    — Gray, 1856
  • Platemys depressa
    Strauch, 1862
  • Platemys geoffreyana
    Hensel, 1868(ex errore)
  • Platemys geoffroyana
    — Hensel, 1868
  • Platemys wagleri
    Boulenger, 1889
  • Rhinemys geoffroana
    Baur, 1890
  • Hydraspis boulengeri
    Bohls, 1895
  • Phrynops wagleri
    Stejneger, 1909
  • Hydraspis lutzi
    Ihering, 1926
  • Phrynops geoffroana geoffroana
    L. Müller, 1939
  • Phrynops geoffrayana
    E. Williams, 1950
  • Phrynops geoffroanus geoffroanus
    Wermuth & Mertens, 1961
  • Phrynops boulengeri
    Pritchard, 1979
  • Phrynops lutzi
    — Pritchard, 1979
  • Phrynops (Phrynops) geoffroannus
    Seddon, Georges, Baverstock & McCord, 1997
    (ex errore)
  • Phrynops geoffranus
    Ippi & Flores, 2001(ex errore)

Phrynops geoffroanus, also commonly known as Geoffroy's side-necked turtle and Geoffroy's toadhead turtle, is a species of large side-necked turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to South America.

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Etymology

The specific name, geoffroanus, is in honor of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. [4]

Geographic range

P. geoffroanus is found in southwestern Venezuela, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru, southward and eastward through southwestern Brazil and northern Bolivia to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, then northward through eastern Brazil. [5] It also occurs in eastern Venezuela, [5] and in adjacent Guyana.[ citation needed ]

Habitat

The prferred natural habitat of P. geoffroanus is freshwater rivers. [5]

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References

  1. Schweigger, Augustus F. (1812). "Prodromus monographiae Cheloniorum ". Königsberger Archiv für Naturwissenschaft und Mathematik1: 271–368, 406–462. (Emys geoffroana, new species, pp. 302-303). (in Latin).
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 340–341. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . ISSN   1864-5755.
  3. van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Bour, Roger; Rhodin, Anders G.J. (2012). "Turtles of the World, 2012 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status". Chelonian Research Monographs (5): 000.243–000.328.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Phrynops geoffroanus, p. 99).
  5. 1 2 3 "Phrynops geoffroanus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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