The red side-necked turtle (''Rhinemys rufipes''), red turtle, red-footed sideneck turtle, William's toadhead turtle, or red-footed Amazon side-necked turtle''Rhinemys rufipes ''
The Reptile Database is a monotypic 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 ...

. It is found in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

and possibly Peru and Brazil. This species is dimorphic in size meaning the sexes show different characteristics. One study found that the largest female out of a group of 24 was 256 mm in carapace length. Out of that same group, the largest male was only 199 mm in carapace length.

References

Rhinemys Turtles of South America Fauna of the Amazon Reptiles of Colombia Reptiles described in 1824 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Turtle-stub