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Original
Description |
Ogilby 1890 : 56 |
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Type
Locality |
"Cape York, Q[ueensland]." [Australia] |
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Holotype |
AMS R6256 |
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Original name |
Chelodina rugosa |
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Common
name |
Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
Northern Australia, from Cape York Peninsula of Queensland across Northern Territory to Kimberley District, Western Australia |
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Comments |
May include Chelodina siebenrocki according to Rhodin and Mittermeier (1976). Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). With no justification, Wells and Wellington (1985:13) placed this species in their new genus Macrochelodina, which itself was not diagnosed; they also named the populations west of the Cape York peninsula in Northern Territory as M. billabong, but without a diagnosis or adequate description. |
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