The savanna side-necked turtle
[ www.reptile-database.org.] (''Podocnemis vogli''), also
commonly known as the Llanos side-necked turtle,
[ is a ]species
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of turtle
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in the family
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Podocnemididae
Podocnemididae is a family of pleurodire (side-necked) turtles, once widely distributed. Most of its 20 genera and 30 species are now extinct. Seven of its eight surviving species are native to South America: the genus '' Peltocephalus'', with o ...
. The species is endemic
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to South America
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.
Etymology
The specific name, ''vogli'', is in honor of Father Cornelius Vogl (1884–1959), who was a Benedictine missionary in Venezuela from 1925 to 1959.[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Podocnemis vogli'', p. 276).]
Geographic range
''Podocnemis vogli'' is found in the Orinoco river system in the Llanos in Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
and Colombia.[
]
References
Further reading
* Gotte SW (1992). "''Podocnemis vogli'' ". ''Catalogue of American Amphibibians and Reptiles'' 537: 1–2.
* Merchán M, Fidalgo AM, Pérez C (2003). "''Biologie und Verbreitung von ''Podocnemis vogli'' in Venezuela'' ". ''Reptilia, Münster'' 8 (40): 47–49. (in German).
* Müller L (1935). "''Über eine neue ''Podocnemis''-Art ''(Podocnemis vogli)'' aus Venezuela nebst ergänzender Bemerkungen über die systematischen Merkmale der ihr nächstverwandten Arten'' ". ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'' 110: 97–109. (''Podocnemis vogli'', new species, p. 104). (in German).
Reptiles described in 1935
Podocnemis
Turtles of South America
Fauna of the Amazon
Reptiles of Colombia
Reptiles of Venezuela
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