Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Podocnemididae > Peltocephalus > Peltocephalus dumerilianus

Peltocephalus dumerilianus (Big-headed Amazon River Turtle)

Synonyms:

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Peltocephalus dumerilianus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.937 lbs (3.60 kg)
Female Weight [1]  7.937 lbs (3.60 kg)
Gestation [1]  3 months 27 days
Litter Size [2]  13

Ecoregions

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicotrema spirale[3]
Nematophila grandis[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0