Endangered
Chaco side-necked turtle
Acanthochelys pallidipectoris
Chaco side-necked turtle is a turtle in the family Chelidae — Acanthochelys pallidipectoris, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The carapace can be yellowish brown, greyish brown or olive in colour, and usually has dark seams. The plastron and bridge are yellow with broad dark seams. In some individuals these seams are so broad that the centre of the plastron barely has any yellow colouration visible. The neck is grey to brown on top, with conical tubercles that go on down the sides of the neck but not onto the greyish yellow underside.
A. Pallidipectoris individuals are typically born with carapace lengths of about 31 mm (1.2 in), growing to 12.8–16.2 cm (5.0–6.4 in) and weighing about 400 g (14 oz) in adulthood, with the maximum recorded length being 17.5 cm (6.9 in).
Range and habitat
Chaco side-necked turtle is endemic to the Gran Chaco, being found in Argentina, Paraguay and the southeasternmost part of Bolivia. It is endemic to the Gran Chaco region of South America, being found in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Chaco side-necked turtle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chaco side-necked turtle, Wikidata item Q305934. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
