Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelidae
Subfamilia: Chelinae
Genus: Acanthochelys
Species: Acanthochelys spixii

Name

• Acanthochelys spixii Duméril & Bibron 1835:409

Type locality: Prov. Rio de Janeiro und Rio San Francisco, Brasilien.

Holotype: ZSM 3003/3

Synonyms

• Emys depressa Spix 1824 (non Emys depressa Merrem 1820)
• Emys depressa Wied 1824
• Platemys Spixii Duméril and Bibron 1835:409 (nom. nov. pro Emys depressa Spix)
  • Hydraspis spixii Gray 1844
  • Hydraspis spixii Gray 1855:69
  • Platemys Spixii Boulenger 1886:424
  • Platemys radiolata spixii Pritchard 1979
  • Platemys spixii Ernst 1983
  • Acanthochelys spixii Iverson 1986
  • Platemys spixii Lehmann 1988
  • Platemys spixii Ernst & Barbour 1989
  • Acanthochelys spixii Cei 1993
  • Acanthochelys spixii TTWG 2014

References

• 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.

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names