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Original
Description |
Werner 1901b : 602 |
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Type
Locality |
"Deutsch-Neu-Guinea" [= Papua New Guinea] |
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Holotype |
ZMB 16491; but now lost. |
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Original name |
Chelodina siebenrocki |
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Common
name |
Siebenrock's Snake-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
South coast of New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua) and some islands in the Torres Strait |
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Comments |
Possibly a synonym of Chelodina rugosa according to Rhodin and Mittermeier (1976). 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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