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Big-headed Amazon River turtle

species of reptile
Taxon taxon Q2716575
Big-headed Amazon River turtle
Spix, Johann Baptist von · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
taxon
Short name
P. dumerilianus[6]
CITES Appendix
Appendix II of CITES[13]
IUCN conservation status
vulnerable[3]
Litter size
+13[14]
Parent taxon
Peltocephalus[4]
Taxon common name
Big-headed Amazon river turtle, Cabezón, Peltocephale de Duméril, Podocnémide de Duméril, Big-headed Amazon River Turtle, Big-headed Sideneck[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Taxon name
Peltocephalus dumerilianus[5]
Taxon range
Brazil, Oriximiná[15][16]
Taxon rank
species[2]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 22
ADW taxon ID
Peltocephalus
ARKive ID (archived)
peltocephalus-dumerilianus, big-headed-amazon-river-turtle/peltocephalus-dumerilianus
BOLD Systems taxon ID
254062
CAB ID
238833
CITES Species+ ID
6028
Catalogue of Life ID
76GCD
Encyclopedia of Life ID
791175
Fossilworks taxon ID
373848
Freebase ID
/m/02w9l32
GBIF taxon ID
5220518
INaturalist taxon ID
73894
IRMNG ID
10782821
Show all 22 identifiers +10
ITIS TSN
551901
IUCN taxon ID
16511
MyBIS species ID
49213
NCBI taxonomy ID
329145
Open Tree of Life ID
540332
SeaLifeBase ID
67291
TAXREF ID
444153
The Reptile Database ID
genus=Peltocephalus&species=dumerilianus
UMLS CUI
C1639577
WoRMS-ID for taxa
1457605

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🔗 Connections
Taxon range 2
Brazil, Oriximiná
IUCN conservation status 1
vulnerable
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Peltocephalus
Taxon rank 1
species
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Summary

Big-headed Amazon River turtle is a taxon[1].

Related Entities

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Anti-Strange-Ipek-Action · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SeaLifeBase ID → 67291
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  2. 10w ago · Debessis · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Litter size → {'amount': '+13'}
    Parent taxon → Peltocephalus
    Instance of → taxon
    IUCN conservation status → vulnerable
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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