Chelodina Fitzinger 1826: 6

Shea, Glenn, Thomson, Scott & Georges, Arthur, 2020, The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed, Zootaxa 4779 (3), pp. 419-437 : 429

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4328848

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E82A6F-917A-2855-FF43-FEC503582573

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scientific name

Chelodina Fitzinger 1826: 6
status

 

Genus: Chelodina Fitzinger 1826: 6

Type species: Testudo longicollis Shaw 1794 ; subsequent designation by Duméril & Bibron (1835: 442).

Revised Diagnosis: Medium to large freshwater turtles with exceptionally long necks; head and neck, when extended, typically of similar length to, or longer than, the carapace; gular scutes meet in front of intergular scute, or if not, barely separated by intergular (common variant in C. burrungandjii ); skull anteriorly elongated; frontal bones fused into a single unit; parietal arch absent; atlas elements (intercentrum, centrum, lamina) fused into a single unit; four claws on front and back feet.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Chelidae

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