CHELIDAE

Krysko, Kenneth L., Burgess, Joseph P., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R., Cueva, Daniel, Enge, Kevin M., Somma, Louis A., Stabile, Jennifer L., Smith, Dustin C., Wasilewski, Joseph A., Kieckhefer Iii, Guy N., Granatosky, Michael C. & Nielsen, Stuart V., 2011, 3028, Zootaxa 3028, pp. 1-64 : 30

CHELIDAE

The Twist-neck Turtle, Platemys platycephala ( Schneider 1792) , is indigenous to the Amazon and Orinoco River drainages in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela ( Pritchard & Trebbau 1984; Bonin et al. 2006). Circa 1985, Gary Patterson collected a P. platycephala in a pond at 101 Clubhouse Drive, Wilderness Country Club, Naples, Collier County (26.1405 o N, - 81.8001 o W). This animal was kept in captivity and still alive as of 15 February 2009 (photographic voucher UF 154589; MorphoBank M88573 ; Fig. 29). This species likely was released or had escaped (stage 2) from an enclosure. This represents the first known voucher for this family and species in Florida.