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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Chelidinae ()
genus...............Elseya (Australian Snapping Turtles)
species
species list
E. dentata (Northern Australian Snapping Turtle)
E. latisternum (Serrated Snapping Turtle)
E. novaeguineae (New Guinea Snapping Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1867 : 44
- Common Name
- Australian Snapping Turtles
- Distribution
- Northern and eastern Australia
- Comments
- See Comment under Emydura. Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). With no justification, Wells and Wellington (1985:12) synonymized Rheodytes Legler and Cann (1980) with Elseya.
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