AIzaSyAuJVPwNWvpDvUbpmqbZFnPgBC05Kg7mpw

You are here » home › advanced search › Chelus fimbriatus

Chelus fimbriatus (SCHNEIDER, 1783)

iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Chelus fimbriatus?

Add your own observation of
Chelus fimbriatus »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaChelidae, Testudines (turtles) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesMata Mata 
SynonymTestudo terrestris FERMIN 1765 (nomen oblitum, non T.t. Forskål 1775)
Testudo fimbriata SCHNEIDER 1783
Testudo fimbria GMELIN 1789 (nomen subst. pro T. fimbriata SCHNEIDER)
Testudo matamata BRUGUIÈRE 1792
Testudo bi-spinosa DAUDIN 1802
Testudo rapara GRAY 1831 (nomen nudum)
Testudo fimbriata — CUVIER 1831: 17
Chelys Matamata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 455
Testudo raparara GRAY 1844 (nomen nudum)
Testudo raxarara GRAY 1855 (nomen nudum)
Chelys fimbriata — GÜNTHER 1882
Chelys fimbriata — BOULENGER 1889
Chelus fimbriatus — MERTENS 1934
Chelus fimbriata — IVERSON 1992
Chelus fimbriatus — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999
Chelus fimbriatus — RIVAS et al. 2012 
DistributionUSA (introduced to Florida)

N Bolivia, E Peru, Ecuador, E Colombia, Venezuela,
Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, N/C Brazil, Trinidad

Type locality: Uprouague and Remire Island, French Guiana. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
Types 
CommentReproduction: oviparous. 
References
  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
  • Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2006. Turtles of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station with remarks on the diversity and distribution of the Testudines from Ecuador. Biota Neotrop. 6 (1): 1-16 - get paper here
  • Duellman, W. E. 1978. The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 65: 1-352 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M.C., and G. Bibron. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles, Vol. 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, iv + 680 p. - get paper here
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Gaffney, Eugene S. 1977. The side-necked turtle family Chelidae: a theory of relationships using shared derived characters American Museum Novitates (2620): 1-28 - get paper here
  • Gorzula Stefan & Senaris J. Celsa 1999. In: Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I: a data base. Scientia Guaianae, Caracas, No. 8 [1998], 269+ pp.; ISBN 980-6020-48-0
  • Günther, Albert 1882. Observations on some rare Reptiles and a Batrachian now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 11 (7): 215-222, 5 plates (2 in color)
  • Gutsche, Alexander 2012. Die Fransenschildkröte oder Mata-Mata. Terraria Elaphe 2012 (2): 76-77 - get paper here
  • Krysko, K.K.; Enge, K.M.; Donlan, E.M.; Golden, E.Z.; Burgess, J.P. & Larson, K.W. 2009. THE NON-MARINE HERPETOFAUNA OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA. Herp. Cons. Biol. 5 (1):132-142 - get paper here
  • Lemell, Patrick; Beisser, Christian Josef; Gumpenberger, Michaela; Snelderwaard, Peter; Gemel, Richa 2010. The feeding apparatus of Chelus fimbriatus (Pleurodira; Chelidae) - adaptation perfected? Amphibia-Reptilia 31: 97-107 - get paper here
  • RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
  • Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo R.;Pritchard, Peter C. H.;Paolillo, Alfredo;Linares, Omar J. 1995. Geographic variation in the matamata turtle, Chelus fimbriatus, with observations on its shell morphology and morphometry Chelonian Conserv. Biol. 1 (4): 293-300
  • Schaefer, I. 1986. Haltung und Nachzucht der Fransenschildkröte Chelus fimbriatus (SCHNEIDER 1783). Salamandra 22 (4): 229-241
  • Schneider, J.G. 1783. Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Schildkröten, nebst einem Systematischen Verseichnisse der einzelnen Arten. Müller, Leipzig. xlviii + 364 p.
  • Souza, Franco L. 2004. Uma revisão sobre padrões de atividade, reprodução e alimentação de cágados brasileiros (Testudines, Chelidae) [A review on activity patterns, reproduction, and feeding habits in Brazilian chelid turtles (Testudines, Chelidae)]. Phyllomedusa 3 (1): 15-28 - get paper here
  • Thomson, Robert C.; Andrew M. Shedlock, Scott V. Edwards and H. Bradley Shaffer 2008. Developing markers for multilocus phylogenetics in non-model organisms: A test case with turtles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (2): 514-525 - get paper here
  • Trutnau, L. 1987. Ein Beitrag zur Lebensgeschichte der Fransenschildkröte Chelus fimbriatus (SCHNEIDER 1783). Herpetofauna 9 (49): 6-10 - get paper here
  • Valverde, J. 2009. Südamerikanische Schildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (6): 16-27 - get paper here
  • Valverde, J. 2010. Schlangenhalsschildkröten Reptilia (Münster) 15 (85): 16-23 [erratum in 86: 10] - get paper here
  • Winkler, J.D. 2006. Testing phylogenetic implications of eggshell characters in side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira). Zoology 109: 127-136
  • Wood, R.C. 1976. Two new species of Chelus (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the late Tertiary of northern South America. Breviora (435): 1-26 - get paper here
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:


Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator