EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Emydura krefftii
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Chelidinae ()
genus...............Emydura (Australian Short-necked Turtles)
species..............Emydura krefftii (Krefft's River Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1871b : 366
- Holotype
- BMNH 1947.3.6.1
- Type Locality
- "Burnett's River" [Queensland, Australia]
- Original name
- Chelymys krefftii
- Common Name
- Krefft's River Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern and northeastern Queensland from the Brisbane region to Cape Charlotte Bay, Australia
- Comments
- See Comment under Emydura australis. Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). Wells and Wellington (1985:13-14) placed this species in their new genus Tropicochelymys; they also named the Jardine River population in Queensland as T. goodei, the Fraser Island population in Queensland as T. insularis, and the Leichhardt River population of Queensland as T. leichhardti, all three without diagnosis or adequate description.
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