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Red-headed Amazon River Turtle
Plate 1 of 3. Martius, Karl Friedrich Philippp von; Spix, Johann Baptist von (Public domain) · via Wikimedia
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Red-headed Amazon River Turtle

Podocnemis erythrocephala

The Red-headed Amazon Side-necked Turtle, Red-headed River Turtle, or Red-headed Sideneck (Podocnemis erythrocephala) is a species of turtle in the Podocnemididae family. It is found in the Amazon basin in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

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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 73923.