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Original
Description |
Ramsay 1886 : 158 |
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Type
Locality |
"Fly River, [Papua] New Guinea" |
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Holotype |
AMS R3677 |
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Original name |
Carettocchelys insculptus (typographic error in genus name) |
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Common
name |
Pig-nose Turtle |
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Distribution |
Southern versant of New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia and papua) and northern portion of Northern Territory, Australia |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Groombridge (1982), Cogger et al. (1983), and Georges (1988). The karyotype and its similarity to that of trionychid turtles are described by Bickham et al. (1983). |
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