Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Podocnemididae > Podocnemis > Podocnemis sextuberculata

Podocnemis sextuberculata (Six-tubercled Amazon River Turtle, Amazon River Turtle; six-tubercled river turtle)

Synonyms: Bartlettia pitipii; Podocnemis expansa sextuberculata; Podocnemis pitiu

Wikipedia Abstract

The six-tubercled Amazon River turtle or six-tubercled river turtle (Podocnemis sextuberculata) is a species of turtle in the Podocnemididae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
View Wikipedia Record: Podocnemis sextuberculata

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Podocnemis sextuberculata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14 grams
Birth Weight [1]  28 grams
Female Weight [1]  56.88 lbs (25.80 kg)
Gestation [1]  88 days
Litter Size [2]  52
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  50 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve State Sustainable Development Reserve VI 3260792 Amazonas, Brazil  

Predators

Inia geoffrensis (Pink River Dolphin)[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)
♦ 3Inia geoffrensis, Robin C. Best and Vera M. F. da Silva, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 426, pp. 1-8 (1993)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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