Peltocephalus dumerilianus Schweigger, 1812

Gaffney, Eugene S., Meylan, Peter A., Wood, Roger C., Simons, Elwyn & De Almeida Campos, Diogenes, 2011, Evolution Of The Side-Necked Turtles: The Family Podocnemididae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (350), pp. 1-237 : 41

Peltocephalus dumerilianus Schweigger, 1812

SYNONYMY: See Boulenger (1889, as P. tracaxa ), Iverson (1992).

TYPE SPECIMEN: Apparently lost ( Iverson, 1992).

TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘America meridionali’’ ( Iverson, 1992).

REFERRED MATERIAL: Specimens that we have seen are: NFWFL 337, NFWFL 336, AMNH Herpetology 131886, MCZ 93077, DGM 361- RR, USNM Herpetology 44760 (5 257687), USNM Herpetology 44761 (5 257688), FMNH Herpetology 140281.

PREVIOUS WORK: See Siebenrock (1902, as ‘‘ Podocnemis dumeriliana ’’), Wermuth and Mertens (1961, 1977) for synonymies and further references, also Pritchard and Trebbau (1984). Williams (1954a) figures the palate. We have included new figures of the cavum pterygoidei of Peltocephalus dumerilianus to show the details of this structure.