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Big-headed Pantanal Swamp Turtle
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Big-headed Pantanal Swamp Turtle

Acanthochelys macrocephala

The big-headed pantanal swamp turtle or pantanal swamp turtle (Acanthochelys macrocephala) is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39610.