Red side-necked turtle

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Red side-necked turtle
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Chelinae
Genus: Rhinemys
Wagler, 1830
Species:
R. rufipes
Binomial name
Rhinemys rufipes
(Spix, 1824) [2]
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Range
Synonyms [3] [4] [5]
Synonymy
  • Emys rufipesSpix, 1824
  • Hydraspis rufipesBell, 1828
  • Rhinemys rufipesWagler, 1830 [6]
  • Chelys (Hydraspis) rufipesGray, 1831
  • Platemys rufipesDuméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Phrynops rufipesGray, 1844
  • Hydraspis rufipesBoulenger, 1889
  • Rhinemys rufipesBaur, 1893 [7]

The red side-necked turtle (Rhinemys rufipes), red turtle, red-footed sideneck turtle, [1] William's toadhead turtle, or red-footed Amazon side-necked turtle [5] is a monotypic species of turtle in the family Chelidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and possibly Peru. [5]

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Description

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In Brazil

This species is dimorphic in size meaning the sexes show different characteristics. [8] One study found that the largest female out of a group of 24 was 256 mm in carapace length. Out of that same group, the largest male was only 199 mm in carapace length. [8] A study focused on determining how these turtles acquire their sex discovered that it is not environmentally determined rather, it is a genetic sex determination. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Tortoise.; Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. (2016) [errata version of 1996 assessment]. "Rhinemys rufipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T17082A97271702. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17082A6797634.en . Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Spix, J.B. von. 1824. Animalia nova; sive, Species novae Testudinum et Ranarum, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis 1817-20 collegit et descripsit. F.S. Hübschmann, München. iv + 53 pp.
  3. ↑ Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, H. Bradley Shaffer, Roger Bour, and Anders G.J. Rhodin. 2012. Turtles of the World, 2012 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 000.243–000.328.
  4. ↑ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 343–344. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . ISSN   1864-5755.
  5. 1 2 3 Rhinemys rufipes , The Reptile Database
  6. ↑ Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugthiere und Vögel. München: J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 354 pp.
  7. ↑ Baur, G. 1893. Notes on the classification and taxonomy of the Testudinata. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 31: 210-225
  8. 1 2 Viana PF, Feldberg E, Cioffi MB, de Carvalho VT, Menezes S, Vogt RC, et al. (September 2020). "The Amazonian Red Side-Necked Turtle Rhinemys rufipes (Spix, 1824) (Testudines, Chelidae) Has a GSD Sex-Determining Mechanism with an Ancient XY Sex Microchromosome System". Cells. 9 (9): 2088. doi: 10.3390/cells9092088 . PMC   7563702 . PMID   32932633.
  9. ↑ Viana, P. F., Feldberg, E., Cioffi, M. B., de Carvalho, V. T., Menezes, S., Vogt, R. C., Liehr, T., & Ezaz, T. (2020). The Amazonian Red Side-Necked Turtle Rhinemys rufipes (Spix, 1824) (Testudines, Chelidae) Has a GSD Sex-Determining Mechanism with an Ancient XY Sex Microchromosome System. Cells (Basel, Switzerland), 9(9), 1–. doi : 10.3390/cells9092088
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