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

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A65AFB70-FFE8-E13F-2AF1-8B5C76CC3C76

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

CHELIDAE
status

 

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 View Materials ; 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Chelidae

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