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Chelus orinocensis

Chelus orinocensis

Marmara de l'Orénoque(+13)·Vargas-Ramírez, Caballero, Morales-Betancourt, Lasso, Amaya, Martînez, Silva-Viana, Vogt, Pires-Farias, Hrbek, Campbell & Fritz, 2020

GBIF:299403536

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(1)

Brazil: Amazonas State: Ariaú, Barcelos, Igarapé Babi (Rio Negro); Santa Isabel do Rio Negro State: Igarapé Urupau (Rio Negro); Roraima State: Boa Vista (Rio Branco). Colombia: Vichada Department: Puerto Carreño Municipality: Bojonawi Nature Reserve, Laguna El Peñuelo (Orinoco River); Bita River (tributary of the Orinoco River); Caño Juriepe (tributary of the Meta River). Cumaribo Municipality: Tomo River (tributary of the Orinoco River). Meta Department: La Macarena Municipality: Losada River, Guayabero River (tributaries of the Guaviare River). Arauca Department: Cravo Norte Municipality: Cravo Norte River; Cinaruquito. Arauca Department: Casanare River. Guayana: Essequibo River. Venezuela: La Unión (Orinoco River).

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 8 languages.

fraMarmara de l'OrénoquefraengOrinoco Mata-mataengengOrinoco MatamataengengOrinoco matamatamata-mata do OrinocoengdanOrinoco-Frynseskildpaddedan+9 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 8 languages.

fraMarmara de l'Orénoque
fra
engOrinoco Mata-mata
eng
engOrinoco Matamata
eng
engOrinoco matamatamata-mata do Orinoco
eng
danOrinoco-Frynseskildpadde
dan
deuOrinoko-Fransenschildkröte
deu
deuOrinoko-Matamata
deu
spacaripatúa
spa
pormata-mata do Orinoco
por
spamatamata del Orinoco
spa
spamatamata orinocence
spa
“Atzapani” (used by Sikuani indigenous group in the Orinoco region)
zho奧利諾科瑪塔龜
zho
kor오리노코 마타마타
kor

CLASSIFICATION

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299403536
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
11157149
Taxon ID
8H6QH
Last Crawled
5/28/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026