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Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Vanderhaege’s Toadhead Turtle; Vanderhaege’s Toadhead Turtle)

Synonyms: Bufocephala vanderhaegei; Phrynops paraguayensis; Phrynops schopfii; Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei; Phrynops vanderhaegei

Wikipedia Abstract

The Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle (Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei) is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
View Wikipedia Record: Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei

Attributes

Gestation [1]  6 months 5 days
Litter Size [1]  4

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No

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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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