Hydromedusa
| Hydromedusa Temporal range: Paleocene-Recent
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| Argentine snake-necked turtle, Hydromedusa tectifera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Hydromedusinae |
| Genus: | Wagler 1830 |
Hydromedusa, commonly known as the South American snake-necked turtles, is a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. They are quite closely related to the South American side-necked swamp turtles (Acanthochelys) and the snake-necked turtles of the Australian-Melanesian region (Chelodina), but less closely to the spine-necked river turtles of South America (Podocnemididae) which belong to a more modern lineage of Pleurodira.
Species
This genus contains the following three species:
- †Hydromedusa casamayorensis de la Fuente & Bona, 2002 – Salamanca and Sarmiento Formations, Argentina
- Hydromedusa maximiliani (Mikan, 1820)[1] – Brazilian snake-necked turtle
- Hydromedusa tectifera Cope, 1869[2] – Argentine snake-necked turtle
References
- ^ Species Hydromedusa maximiliani at The Reptile Database www.reptile-databse.org.
- ^ Species Hydromedusa tectifera at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Wagler, J (1830). Natürliches System der Amphibian, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugthiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate. (Hydromedusa, new genus, p. 135). (in German and Latin).
External links
- Molina, Francisco J.; Leynaud, Gerardo C. (2017). "Thermoconformity strategy in the freshwater turtle Hydromedusa tectifera (Testudines, Chelidae) in its southern distribution area". Journal of Thermal Biology 69: 178–183. https://doi,org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.07.008
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