INVESTIGADORES
ALCALDE Leandro
artículos
Título:
Hydromedusa tectifera (South American snake-necked turtle).
Autor/es:
DIPIETRO DO; ALCALDE L; WILLIAMS JD; CABRERA MR
Revista:
HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW
Editorial:
SSAR publications
Referencias:
Año: 2012 vol. 43 p. 303 - 303
ISSN:
0018-084X
Resumen:
HYDROMEDUSA TECTIFERA (South American snake-necked turtle). ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: Partido de Tornquist: Sierra de la Ventana: near Río Sauce Grande (38º07?52?S; 57º47?34?W). 12 March 2012. D. O. Di Pietro. Herpetological Collection of Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (MLP R 5717). The specimen is a recently born turtle that was road-crashed in occasion of an intense rain. Verified by P. Bona. Species previously known from Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, northeastern (Fritz and Hava? 2007. Checklist of Chelonians of the World. Vertebrate Zoology 57: 149-368) and central Argentina (Cabrera 1998. Las Tortugas continentales de Sudamérica austral. Córdoba, Privately Printed, 108 pp., 6 pls.) Southernmost locality of the species extends the known distribution ca. 500 km SW from Roberto Pairó, Partido de Magdalena, Buenos Aires province, which was the previous nearest known locality (Cabrera 1998).