South American Snapping Turtle
Chelydra acutirostris Peters, 1862
Also calledChélydre serpentine d'Amérique du Sud (fra) · Sydamerikansk Snapskildpadde (dan) · Südamerikanische Schnappschildkröte (deu) · Testuggine azzannatrice sudamericana (ita) · Tortuga Lagarto (spa) · Tortuga Pímpano (spa) · kajmanka ostronosá (ces) · kajmánteknős (hun) · tortuga lagarto de sudamérica (spa) · سلحفاة أمريكا الجنوبية النهاشة (ara) · ナンベイカミツキガメ (jpn) · 南美擬鱷龜 (zho)
First described in: Peters, & Wilhem Carl Hartwig. Über einen neuen Phyllodactylus aus Guayaquil.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Holotype: ZMB 4500 (Medem 1977: 46; Fritz et al. 1994: 163; Bauer et al. 1995: 51).
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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Every page naming Chelydra acutirostris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 8330787.