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Original
Description |
Gray 1857 : 370 |
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Type
Locality |
"Australia"; incorrectly restricted to "nördliches Australia" by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:122) |
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Syntypes |
(2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.21; BMNH 1947.3.5.88 |
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Original name |
Chelodina expansa |
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Common
name |
Giant Snake-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
Australia: Murray-Darling River system of South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland, and coastal basins of southeastern Queensland |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). Geographic variation may be significant enough to warrant subspecies recognition (P. C. H. Pritchard, pers. comm.). With no justification, Wells and Wellington (1985:13) placed this species in their new genus Macrochelodina, which itself was not diagnosed. |
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