Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle

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Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle
Young Podocnemis sextuberculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Podocnemididae
Genus: Podocnemis
Species:
P. sextuberculata
Binomial name
Podocnemis sextuberculata
Cornalia, 1849

The six-tubercled Amazon River turtle[2] or six-tubercled river turtle (Podocnemis sextuberculata) is a species of turtle in the family Podocnemididae.

It is found in the Amazon basin in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and possibly Ecuador.[3]

References

  1. ^ Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Podocnemis sextuberculata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
  2. ^ Podocnemis sextuberculata, Reptile Database
  3. ^ "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status". Chelonian Research Monographs. Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. 7 (8 ed.): 1–292. 2017. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)