Chelydra acutirostris Peters 1862 (South American snapping turtle)
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Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Type locality: “Guayaquil” [Ecuador]
Full reference: W. K. H. Peters. 1862. Über einen neuen Phyllodactylus aus Guayaquil. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862:626-627
Belongs to Chelydra according to A. G. J. Rhodin et al. 2017
See also Peters 1862 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cheliurus, Chelydra rossignonii, Chelydra serpentina
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Chelydra acutirostris in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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