EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Pseudemydura umbrina
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Chelidae (Austro-American Side-necked Turtles)
subfamily.......Chelidinae ()
genus...............Pseudemydura (Western Swamp Turtles)
species..............Pseudemydura umbrina (Western Swamp Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Siebenrock 1901 : 249
- Holotype
- NMW 89 (8450) = 1296
- Type Locality
- "Australia"
- Original name
- Pseudemydura umbrina
- Common Name
- Western Swamp Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from swamps near Warbrook, northeast of Perth, Western Australia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Williams (1958), Burbidge (1981), Groombridge (1982), and Kuchling and Dejose (1989).
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