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Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (BOUR, 1973)

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Higher TaxaChelidae, Chelinae, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Vanderhaege’s Toadhead Turtle
Portuguese: Cágado, Cágado-Cabeçudo, Galápago, Tartaruga-Cabeça-de-Sapo 
SynonymPhrynops schopfii “FITZINGER” DIERING (nomen nudum)
Phrynops paraguayensis “VANZOLINI” DONOSO-BARROS (nomen nudum)
Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei BOUR 1973: 184
Phrynops vanderhaegei — PRITCHARD 1979
Phrynops (Batrachemys) vanderhaegei — ALDERTON 1988
Bufocephala vanderhaegei — MCCORD et al. 2001
Bufocephala vanderhaegei — MCCORD & JOSEPH-OUNI 2002
Bufocephala vanderhaegei — SOUZA 2004
Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei — BOUR & ZAHER 2005
Bufocephala (Phrynops) vanderhaegei — BONIN et al 2006
Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei — VAN DIJK et al. 2011
Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei — TTWG 2021 
DistributionParaguay (rivers and swamps), Argentina (Misiones [HR 31: 184], NE Corrientes), Brazil (Goias, Mato Grosso do Sul, Snao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Tocantins)

Type locality: “les environs d’Asunción au Paraguay”; restricted to “Tobati, La Cordillera, Paraguay” by Bour & Pauler 1987.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1977.0050 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus Bufocephala). A toadhead turtle of the family Chelidae distinguished by having a generally blackish head in adults (as.in M. gibba and B. heliostemma); a medium-sized head (as in R. rufipes and P. geoffroanus); a horizontal "bar" in the iris of the eye [= iris] (as in B. dahli and B. zuliae); nose pointed (as in all toadheads except the P. geoffroanus complex); small barbels (as in all toadheads but R. hogei, and the P. geoffroanus complex); parietal roof width moderate, as in no other toadhead; reduced neural series (as in all toadheads [R. hogei ?]but the P. geoffroanus complex and R. rufipes), but unique in having a usually discontiguous series, often with a first neural present, that does not touch the proneural; intergular wider than gulars (as in all toadheads but R. hogei, P. geoffroanus, B. tuberculata and B. heliostemma); plastral seam formula starts with IG>IF>Iab (as in B. dahli, B. raniceps, B. nasuta, B. heliostemma, and sometimes M. gibba and P. geoffroanus); the carapace is mildly domed (unique to B. vanderhaegei); no carapacial median keel (as in all toadheads but R. rufipes and M. gibba); carapacial median groove present in adults (as in all toadheads but R. rufipes and M. gibba); 11th marginals narrower than 12th (as in R. hogei, R. rufipes and M. gibba); the antero-medial distal tibial scale moderately developed (as in B. dahli and P. geoffroanus); the lateral marginal scutes upturned (as in all toadheads but R. rufipes and P. geoffroanus, but with Bufocephala the upturn is "sharp", as in M. gibba, R. hogei, B. dahli, B. zuliae and B. tuberculata); there is obvious narrowing of the lateral marginals of the carapace, a unique condition among toadheads; plastron generally black with yellow background (as in many M. gibba, and similar to that in B. raniceps, B. nasuta and B. heliostemma); axillary scutes absent in the Paraguayan population (as in R. rufipes, B. zuliae, and sometimes B. nasuta and B. dahli). The chelid foramen is present (Bour and Pauler 1987, MCord et al. 2001). 
CommentFor a color illustration and distribution map see MCCORD & JOSEPH-OUNI 2002.

Type Species: Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei BOUR 1973 is the type species of the genus Bufocephala MCCORD et al. 2001. MCCORD et al. 2001 included only vanderhaegei in Bufocephala.

Habitat: freshwater (rivers, swamps) 
EtymologyNamed after Maurice Vanderhaege, a cheloniophile and expert in breeding reptiles in terraria. 
References
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