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Original
Description |
Gray 1863b : 98 |
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Type
Locality |
"N. Australia [Northern Territory]; Upper Victoria [River], in Beagle's Valley" |
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Syntypes |
(2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.6.2; BMNH 1947.3.6.3 |
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Original name |
Chelymys dentata |
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Common
name |
Northern Australian Snapping Turtle |
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Distribution |
Australia: eastern Queensland (including Burnett and Fitzroy river basins), the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, and Arnhem Land, Northern Territory to the Kimberley district, Western Australia |
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Comments |
Synonymy should include Platemys novaeguineae Meyer (1874; = Elseya novaeguineae) according to McDowell (1983), but a more thorough study is needed. Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). This taxon is apparently a composite of several distinct species according to John Legler (pers. comm.) and Georges and Adams (1989). Wells and Wellington (1985:12) named the Queensland population Elseya sterlingi, but without diagnosis or adequate description; they also designated BMNH 1947.3.6.3 as lectotype. |
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