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Podocnemis expansa
It is one of the largest species of turtles reaching 90 cm and weighing 25 kg. It has grayish black hull on the back and yellow with dark spots on the ventral part. The meat and eggs are greatly appreciated, providing the basis for many dishes from the Amazon cuisine.
It is found throughout the Brazilian Amazon in large rivers and tributaries, adjacent lagoons and forest ponds.
Spotted on Oct 5, 2015
Submitted on Oct 5, 2015
2 Comments
It is beautiful!
But to me is it is sad to know that.... "The meat and eggs are greatly appreciated, providing the basis for many dishes from the Amazon cuisine"
Project Noah Fact of the Day: While turtles can be amphibious, they are not amphibians, they are reptiles! They have scales, claws and lay an egg that is surrounded by a harder membrane called a shell. The reptiles include the amphisbaenians, crocodilians, snakes, turtles, lizards and tuataras. Amphibians include animals like frogs and toads, salamanders and newts, and the rarely seen mostly fossorial caecilians.
South American River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) spotted in Brazil by PN user CassioCorradi.
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