River Turtle Facts
Kingdom:
Five groups that classify all living things...
ARRAU RIVER TURTLE, Podocnemis expansa
Order: Pleurodira
Family: Pelomedusidae (6 Podocnemis species) ...
Fly River Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2007. While these images are the property of mongabay.
Reptiles; Fly River Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta), Images by Wernher Krutein and PHOTOVAULTŪ ...
Giant Amazon river turtle
Podocnemis expansa
Species Information
Exhibit Name and Location
Amazon River Forest - Main Aquarium, Level 4 ...
Because of their size, Pig-nosed turtles or Fly River Turtles require the most spacious enclosures of any freshwater aquatic turtle.
Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtles can live up to 70 years. But they don't often get the chance. People eat both their meat and eggs. As a result, populations of these vulnerable freshwater turtles continue to decline and disappear.
The Zoo's female Central American river turtle was born in the wild in Guatemala. She was a sub-adult when she arrived on August 13, 1993. She was confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport in Texas.
River turtle race
Andes to Amazon
It's a race against time for one of the world's largest freshwater turtles to lay its eggs safely.
Fly River turtle
Class: Reptilia
Status: IUCN: Vulnerable CITES: Appendix II
Frilled lizard ...
Black River Turtle
Sighting:
Tortuguero National Park, Limon province, Costa Rica ...
The river turtle is almost totally aquatic and performs a large amount of gas exchange though the lining of the nasal passage.
Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus)
Giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi)
Fleay's barred-frog (Mixophyes fleayi)
Baw baw frog (Philoria pughi)
Australian lace-lid (Litoria dayi)
Torrent tree frog (Litoria nannotis) ...
A Murray River turtle
Some turtles live in the sea and others live in fresh water.
Mary River Turtle
Mary River Turtle (adult)
Mary River Turtle (hatchling)
Masatoshi Meguro
Masked Bannerfish, Heniochus monoceros (Cuvier, 1831)
Masked Bee Specimen
Masked Bee specimen from front
Masked Bee specimen from side
Masked bees ...
Its diet is known to include over 50 species of fish, usually less than 30 cm (1') long, as well as freshwater crabs and river turtles. Its diet varies markedly on a seasonal basis in synchrony with the flood cycle.
Although it can be found in lakes and smaller streams, the eastern spiny softshell is essentially a river turtle. It prefers relatively shallow water with a sand or soft mud bottom.
Members of the family Chelidae, sometimes called snake-necked turtles, are river turtles of South America and the Australia-New Guinea region. Several species have slender, elongated snouts.
However, there are exceptions to this where American or Australian common names are in wide use, as with the Fly River turtle.
American English tends to use the word turtle for all freshwater species, as well as for certain land-dwelling species (e.
The freshwater Fitzroy River turtle (Rheodytes leukops) breathes normally above water, but can remain underwater for long periods by breathing through its combined genital and excretory opening, or cloaca, ...
called Giant South American River Turtle - tataruga in Brazil, charapa in Peru, arrau in Venezuela
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overexploited for meat, oil and eggs - threatened by habitat alteration and destruction - predators include jaguars and crocodiles ...
It is also suggested that the massive head and stout canines of the jaguar are adaptations for "cracking open" well-armored reptilian prey, such as land tortoises and river turtles. It kills smaller prey by simply breaking their necks.
Food Habits
The river dolphin feeds on fish, river turtles, and crabs.
Scientists working for the US Geological Survey report that they have discovered a new species of map turtle in Mississippi's Pearl River. Male Pearl River turtles are about the size of a tea saucer, while females grow to be as big as a dinner plate, ...
Conservation of river turtles. Pages 126-155 in M.W. Klemens (ed.). Turtle Conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Pauley, T.K., M.B. Watson. 2000. Amphibian, reptiles and birds of the Great Kanawha River.
 See also: Turtle, Reptile, Shell, Tortoise, Snake
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