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)
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- 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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