Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Chaco Side-Necked Turtle, Chaco Sideneck Turtle
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater
Ecology: Terrestrial
nest
sites[1]
List of Habitats
:1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Anapsida
()
- Order:
Testudines
()
- Suborder:
Pleurodira
()
- Family:
Chelidae
()
- Subfamily:
Chelinae
()
- Genus:
Acanthochelys
()
- Gray, 1873c
- Specific name:
pallidipectoris
- Freiberg
- Scientific name: - Acanthochelys pallidipectoris Freiberg
- Specific name:
pallidipectoris
- Freiberg
- Genus:
Acanthochelys
(
- Subfamily:
Chelinae
(
- Family:
Chelidae
(
- Suborder:
Pleurodira
(
- Order:
Testudines
(
- Subclass:
Anapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Acanthochelys Chacoensis ?
- Acanthochelys pallidipectoris - Cei 1993
- Acanthochelys pallidipectoris — Iverson 1986
- Phrynops chacoensis Fritz & Pauler 1992
- Platemys macrocephala Rhodin Mittermeier & Mcmorris 1984
- Platemys pallidipectoris — Alderton 1988
- Platemys pallidipectoris - Ernst & Barbour 1989
- Platemys pallidipectoris Freiberg 1945
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Acanthochelys
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. macrocephala (Big-Headed Pantanal Swamp Turtle) · A. pallidipectoris (Chaco Side-Necked Turtle) · A. radiolata (Brazilian Radiolated Swamp Turtle) · A. spixi · A. spixii (Black Spine-Necked Swamp Turtle)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
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- Ernst & Barbour (1989) Turtles of the World.
- Ernst (1983) Cat. Amer. Amph. Rept. No. 325: 1-2
- Freiberg (1945) Physis. Buenos Aires 20: 19-23
- Freiberg (1967) Ciencia e Investigacion (Buenos Aires) 23(8): 351-363.
- Giraudo (1996) Herpetological Review 27 (4): 210
- Groombridge, B. 1982. The IUCN Amphibia-Reptilia Red Data Book, Part 1: Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynocehapalia. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
- Kacoliris et al. (2006) Phyllomedusa 5 (2): 149-158
- Vinke et al. (2001) Radiata 10 (3): 3-19
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. Acanthochelys pallidipectoris. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 14 January 2007.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3846844
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-247
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551878
- IUCN ID: 75
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1288
Footnotes
- Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
