page_title: List of reptiles of Guatemala
section_title: Chelydridae
hierarchical_section_title: List of reptiles of Guatemala / Turtles (Testudines) / Chelydridae
caption_attribution_description: Common snapping turtle - Chelydra serpentina
context_page_description: This is a list reptiles in Guatemala, including snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles.
  Guatemala has a large variety of habitats, from tropical rain forests, dry thorn scrubs, cloud forests, coastal marshes, pine forests, mountains and lowlands. This vast contrast in biomes makes Guatemala home to a large variety of herpetofauna. These include approximately 240 species of reptiles, subdivided in 3 orders and 29 families.
context_section_description: Order: Testudines. 
  Family: Chelydridae
  Chelydridae is a family of turtles which has seven extinct and two extant genera, both endemic to the Western Hemisphere. The extant genera are Chelydra the snapping turtles, and its larger relative Macrochelys, of which the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is the only species.
  Common snapping turtle – Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)
caption: Chelydra serpentina
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