Taxonavigation

Familia: Podocnemididae
Genus: Podocnemis
Species: Podocnemis erythrocephala

Name

• Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824)
  • Type locality: "Rio Solimoens" (= Rio Solimoes), South America, most probably Brazil.
  • Holotype: ZSM 2517, 0

Synonymy

• Emys erythrocephala Spix 1824:9
  • Emys bitentaculata Cuvier in Gray 1830:17
  • Emys enythrocephala Schinz 1833
  • Podocnemis agassizii Coutino in Göldi 1886:277
  • Podocnemis coutinhii Göldi 1886:279 (nomen novum)
  • Podocnemis erythrocephala Frair et al. 1978
  • Podocnemis erythrocephala Gorzula & Señaris 1999
  • Podocnemis erythrocephala TTWG 2014

References

• Spix, J.B. and J.G. Wagler. 1824. Herpetology of Brazil. Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 400 pp.
• Mittermeier, R.A., and R.A. Wilson. 1974. Redescription of Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824), and Amazonian pelomedusid turtle. Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo. 28:147-162.
• Pritchard, P.C.H., and P. Trebbau. 1984. The Turtles of Venezuela. SSAR Contributions to Herpetology 2: viii + 402 pp.
• Vogt, R.C., Thomson, S.A., Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., Mittermeier, R.A., & Baggi, N. 2013. Case 3587 Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 (Reptilia,Testudines): proposed precedence over Emys cayennensis Schweigger, 1812. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(1):33-39.

• 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. 

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