Mesoclemmys raniceps
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| Species: | M. raniceps
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| Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856)[1]
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Mesoclemmys raniceps is a side-necked turtle found on the both the Amazon basin, and Orinoco basin. Little information is known about the turtles life cycle but there is evidence that the females can lay a clutch of 4-8 eggs several times in the year[4]
References
- ^ Gray, John Edward. 1856 [“1855”]. Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Testudinata (Tortoises). London: British Museum, 79 pp. [Published Mar 1856].
- ^ Uwe Fritz & Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 263–264. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.herpetologynotes.seh-herpetology.org/Volume3_PDFs/Ferronato_et_al_Herpetology_Notes_Volume3_pages211-214.pdf
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