Mesoclemmys raniceps

Mesoclemmys raniceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Subfamily:	Chelinae
Genus:	Mesoclemmys
Species:	M. raniceps
Binomial name
Mesoclemmys raniceps (Gray, 1856)[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
List Hydraspis raniceps Gray, 1856 Platemys raniceps Strauch, 1862 Phrynops walbaumi Fitzinger, 1904 (nomen nudum) Phrynops wermuthi Mertens, 1969 Phrynops tuberculatus wermuthi Bour, 1973 Phrynops nasuta wermuthi Pritchard, 1979 Phrynops raniceps Bour & Pauler, 1987 Batrachemys raniceps Cabrera, 1998 Batrachemys raniceps raniceps Joseph-Ouni, 2004 Batrachemys raniceps wermuthi Joseph-Ouni, 2004 Mesoclemmys raniceps Bour & Zaher, 2005

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

1. 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].
2. 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.
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. http://www.herpetologynotes.seh-herpetology.org/Volume3_PDFs/Ferronato_et_al_Herpetology_Notes_Volume3_pages211-214.pdf