EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Emydura macquarrii


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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 macquarrii (Murray River Turtle)
Original Description
Gray 1831b : 40
Holotype
MNHN 9409
Type Locality
"Novā Hollandiā, Macquarrie River" [Australia]
Original name
Hydraspis macquarrii
Common Name
Murray River Turtle
Distribution
Murray-Darling river basin in South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria, and coastal basins in extreme southeastern South Australia
Comments
Reviewed by Cogger et al. (1983). See Comment under Emydura australis. Wells and Wellington (1985:12) erroneously placed this species in the genus Chelymys Gray (1844: see Comment under Emydura); they also named the Cooper Creek - Strzelecki Creek populations of southwestern Queensland as C. windorah, but without a diagnosis or an adequate description.
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