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Original
Description |
Krefft 1876 : 390 |
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Type
Locality |
"Amana River S.E. [Papua] New Guinea" |
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Holotype |
MSNG C.E. 2320 according to Ogilby 1905. |
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Original name |
Euchelymys subglobosa |
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Common
name |
Red-bellied Short-necked Turtle |
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Distribution |
Extreme northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Australia and New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua) |
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Comments |
See Comment under Emydura australis. Synonymy includes Emydura albertsii Boulenger (1888a). Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). Wells and Wellington (1985:13) placed this species in their new genus Tropicochelymys. |
