Pantanal swamp turtle
The big-headed pantanal swamp turtle or pantanal swamp turtle (Acanthochelys macrocephala ) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae found in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Paraguay.
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TerrestrialTerrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, snails), as compared with aquatic animals, which liv...
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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A. macrocephala is known from the upper Rio Mamoré drainage of central Bolivia, the Pantanal region and other swamplands of the upper Rio Paraguay drainage in southwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil, to the Chaco of Paraguay. Its range in Bolivia may be more extended.
This species is most closely related to Acanthochelys radiolata ; it includes Phrynops chacoensis. It inhabits marshes, swamps, and slow-flowing streams.
