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Giant Amazon River Turtle

Podocnemis expansa

Description:

Turtle, weird looking

Habitat:

Zoo

Notes:

Epic

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6 Comments

turtles2penguins
turtles2penguins 9 years ago

awesome

bandhturtlesite
bandhturtlesite 11 years ago

Cool! I thought it looked like some kind of Amazonian River Turtle.

Paul the Finder
Paul the Finder 11 years ago

yes

bandhturtlesite
bandhturtlesite 11 years ago

Maybe a Giant Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis expansa)?

Paul the Finder
Paul the Finder 11 years ago

No bigger

bandhturtlesite
bandhturtlesite 11 years ago

It is a little hard to tell what kind of turtle it is from the picture because it is a little pixelated and blurry. However it looks kind of like a Yellow Spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis).

Paul the Finder
Spotted by
Paul the Finder

San Francisco, California, USA

Spotted on Dec 29, 2011
Submitted on May 31, 2012

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