Acanthochelys
| Acanthochelys | |
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| Black spine-necked turtle (A. spixii) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelinae
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| Genus: | Acanthochelys Gray 1873[1] |
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Acanthochelys is a genus of
Platemys, but were moved to the resurrected genus originally described by Gray (1873) based on the type species by monotypy Acanthochelys spixii.[2]
Taxonomy
Current nomenclature for this genus follows that of van Dijk et al. (2012):[3]
- Big-headed pantanal swamp turtle (A. macrocephala Rhodin, Mittermeier, and McMorris 1984)[4]
- Chaco side-necked turtle (A. pallidipectoris Freiberg 1945)[5]
- Brazilian radiolated swamp turtle (A. radiolata Mikan 1820)[6]
- Black spine-neck swamp turtle (A. spixii Duméril and Bibron 1835)[7]
References
- ^ Gray, John Edward. 1873c. Observations on chelonians, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)11:289–308.
- ^ Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed, Richmond: Indiana. 364pp.
- ^ Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, H. Bradley Shaffer, Roger Bour, and Anders G.J. Rhodin. 2012. Turtles of the World, 2012 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 000.243–000.328.
- ^ Rhodin, Anders G.J., Mittermeier, Russell A., and McMorris, J. Robert. 1984. Platemys macrocephala, a new species of chelid turtle from central Bolivia and the Pantanal region of Brazil. Herpetologica 40(1):38–46.
- ^ Freiberg, Marcos A. 1945. Una nueva especie de tortuga del genero Platemys Wagler. Physis 20:19–23.
- ^ Mikan, Johann Christian. 1820. Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis. Fasciculus Primus. Vindobonae: 6 pp., 6 pls.
- ^ Duméril, André Marie Constant and Bibron, Gabriel. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome Second. Paris: Roret, 680 pp.