Geoffroy's Side-necked Turtle

Fascinating facts about the Geoffroy's Side-necked Turtle

• The specific name, geoffroanus, honors French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
• It prefers the winding freshwater rivers of South America as its home.
• Its map stretches from southwestern Venezuela across southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru, then sweeps down through southwestern Brazil, northern Bolivia, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina, looping back up through eastern Brazil and even reaching Guyana.
• The species was listed in Boulenger’s 1899 catalogue of chelonians, marking over a century of scientific recognition for this side-necked turtle.

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