#1812 · 🦎 reptiles
Hilaire’s Side-necked Turtle
Phrynops hilarii
🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Phrynops hilarii , commonly known as Hilaire’s toadhead turtle or Hilaire’s side-necked turtle , is a species of turtle endemic to South America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,059 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Auguste Duméril in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hilaire’s Side-necked Turtle
- scientific name
- Phrynops hilarii
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Chelidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,059
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Auguste Duméril
relatives· Chelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 39626, Wikidata Q1080458, GBIF 2442089, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.