EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Chelodina rugosa
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Chelidinae ()
genus...............Chelodina (Snake-necked Turtles)
species..............Chelodina rugosa (Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Ogilby 1890 : 56
- Holotype
- AMS R6256
- Type Locality
- "Cape York, Q[ueensland]." [Australia]
- Original name
- Chelodina rugosa
- Common Name
- Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle
- Distribution
- Northern Australia, from Cape York Peninsula of Queensland across Northern Territory to Kimberley District, Western Australia
- Comments
- May include Chelodina siebenrocki according to Rhodin and Mittermeier (1976). Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). With no justification, Wells and Wellington (1985:13) placed this species in their new genus Macrochelodina, which itself was not diagnosed; they also named the populations west of the Cape York peninsula in Northern Territory as M. billabong, but without a diagnosis or adequate description.
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