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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..............Elseya novaeguineae (New Guinea Snapping Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Meyer 1874 : 128
- Holotype
- MTKD D8222, according to Obst 1976:43.
- Type Locality
- Neu Guinea
- Original name
- Platemys novae guineae
- Common Name
- New Guinea Snapping Turtle
- Distribution
- New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Papua). Supposedly also occurs in the Palau islands (Aoki, 1977)
- Comments
- See Comment under Elseya dentata.
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