Cotinga River Toadhead Turtle

Phrynops geoffroanus

Summary 2

The Geoffroy’s Toadhead Turtle or Geoffroy’s Side-necked Turtle (Phrynops geoffroanus) is a large species of side-necked turtle found in southwestern Venezuela, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru, southward and eastward through southwestern Brazil and northern Bolivia to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, then northward through eastern Brazil. It also occurs in eastern Venezuela, and in adjacent Guyana.

Fuentes y créditos

  1. (c) BS Thurner Hof, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Phrynops_geoffroanus_BS_432.JPG/460px-Phrynops_geoffroanus_BS_432.JPG
  2. (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrynops_geoffroanus

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Taxonomy:family Chelidae