The black spine-neck swamp turtle (''Acanthochelys spixii''), also commonly known as the spiny-neck turtle or Spix's sideneck turtle, is a species of turtle in the family

Chelidae Chelidae is one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira, and are commonly called Austro-South American side-neck turtles. The family is distributed in Australia, New Guinea, parts of Indonesia, and throughout most of South Amer ...

. The species is endemic to South America, specially in the

Southern Cone The Southern Cone ( es, Cono Sur, pt, Cone Sul) is a geographical and cultural subregion composed of the southernmost areas of South America, mostly south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Traditionally, it covers Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, bou ...

region.

Etymology

The

specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...

, ''spixii'', is in honor of German biologist

Johann Baptist von Spix Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German natural history, biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. ...

Geographic range

''A. spixii'' is found in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, www.reptile-database.org. and possibly Paraguay.

References

Acanthochelys Turtles of South America Reptiles of Argentina Reptiles of Brazil Reptiles of Uruguay Reptiles described in 1835 Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{turtle-stub