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Original
Description |
Ahl 1932 : 127 |
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Type
Locality |
"Umgebung von BRISBANE [Queensland], Australien" |
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Holotype |
ZMB 34102 |
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Original name |
Emydura signata |
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Common
name |
Brisbane Short-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
Coastal basins in northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland, Australia |
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Comments |
Considered a subspecies of Emydura macquarrii by Wermuth and Mertens (1977:128). Actually includes several distinct, allopatric species according to Cann (1978) and John Legler (pers. comm.). Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). Erroneously placed in the genus Chelymys Gray (1844) by Wells and Wellington (1985:12); they also named the Macleay River population of New South Wales as C. cooki, and the upper Hunter River basin population in New South Wales as C. joncanni, each without a diagnosis or adequate description. |
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