Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelidae
Subfamilia: Chelinae
Genus: Phrynops
Species: P. geoffroanus – P. hilarii – P. tuberosus – P. williamsi

Name

• Phrynops Wagler, 1830
  • Type Species: P. geoffroanus

Synonyms

• Phrynops Wagler 1830:135
  • Spatulemys Gray 1872:463
  • Parahydraspis †Wieland 1923:2 (Miocene, Argentina) synonymy that of Gasparini et al. 1996.

References

• Wagler, J. G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugthiere und Vögel. München: J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 354 pp., pls. 1–7.
• Gray, J. E. 1872. On Spatulemys lasalae, a new genus of Hydraspidae from Rio Parana, Corrientes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)10:463.
• Wieland, George R. 1923. A new Parana pleurodiran. American Journal of Science (5)5:1–14.

• 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. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page. 

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