Maracaibo wood turtle

Maracaibo wood turtle
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Subclass:	Anapsida
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Rhinoclemmys
Species:	R. diademata
Binomial name
Rhinoclemmys diademata (Mertens, 1954)
Synonyms
Rhinoclemmys dademata' Geoemyda punctularia diademata Mertens, 1954 Callopsis punctularia diademata Smith, Smith & Sawin, 1976 Rhinoclemmys punctularia diademata Fretey, Hoogmoed & Lescure, 1977 Geomyda punctularia diademata Ernst, 1978 Rhinoclemmys diademata Pritchard, 1979 Rhinoclemys diademata Pritchard, 1979

The Maracaibo wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys diademata or Rhinoclemmys dademata) is a species of turtles belonging to the Rhinoclemmys genus of the family Geoemydida found in Colombia and Venezuela.

References

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (14 December 2010). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status". Archived from the original (pdf) on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment: 149–368. ISSN 1864-5755. Retrieved 27 March 2011. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)