Hydromedusa tectifera (South American snake-necked turtle)

Abstract

Herpetological Collection of Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (MLP R 5717 hatchling turtle, 32 mm carapace length, road-killed during a heavy rain). Verified by P. Bona. Species previously known from Uruguay, eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern and central Argentina (Cabrera 1998. Las Tortugas Continentales de Sudamérica Austral. Córdoba, Argentina, Privately printed, 108 pp., 6 pls.; Fritz and Havaš 2007. Vert. Zool. 57:149–368). Southernmost locality for the species and extends its known distribution ca. 495 km airline SW from Roberto Pairó, Partido de Magdalena, Buenos Aires province, which was the previous nearest known locality (Cabrera 1998, op. cit.)