Black spine-neck swamp turtle

Black spine-neck swamp turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Chelinae
Genus: Acanthochelys
Species: A. spixii
Binomial name
Acanthochelys spixii
(Duméril & Bibron, 1835)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Emys depressa Spix 1824:4 (junior homonym)[4]
  • Emys aspera Gray 1830:16 (10:7) (nomen dubium et oblitum)
  • Platemys spixii Duméril and Bibron 1835:409[5]
  • Acanthochelys spixii Duméril & Bibron, 1835 recombination[6]

The black spine-neck swamp turtle, spiny-neck turtle or Spix's sideneck turtle (Acanthochelys spixii) is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and possibly Paraguay.

References

  1. Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (1996). Acanthochelys spixii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
  2. Duméril, A.M.C., and G. Bibron. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles, Vol. 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, iv + 680 p.
  3. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.]. 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
  4. 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.
  5. Duméril, A.M.C. and Bibron, G. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles. Tome Second. Paris: Roret, 680 pp.
  6. Gray, J.E. 1873. Observations on chelonians, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)11:289-308.
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