Emydura victoriae

Emydura victoriae, also known commonly as the red-faced turtle and the Victoria short-necked turtle, is a species of medium-sized aquatic turtle in the family Chelidae. The species inhabits rivers, streams and permanent water bodies across much of northern Australia.

Red-faced turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Emydura
Species:
E. victoriae
Binomial name
Emydura victoriae
(Gray, 1842)[1]
Synonyms[2][3][4]

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Etymology

The specific name, victoriae, refers to the Victoria River (Northern Territory).[5]

Taxonomy

The species E. victiriae has a disrupted nomenclatural history. For many years it appeared in the literature as Emydura australis (Gray 1841: 445)[6] however in 1983 this name was synonymised with Emydura macquarii, incorrectly according to Iverson et al. 2001.[7] Since this time the species has been known as Emydura victoriae this name too has nomenclatural issues[7] and it is possible the names may eventually be reversed again.

Synonymy
  • Hydraspis victoriae Gray 1842: 55
  • Chelymys victoriae — Gray 1872: 21
  • Emydura victoriae — Worrell 1964: 17
  • Tropicochelymys victoriae — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 9
  • Emydura victoria Cann, 1997: 28 (ex errore)

Nota bene: Synonyms without dashes are new taxa; synonyms with dashes are just new combinations.

References
  1. Gray, J.E. (1842). "Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians". pp 51-57. In: Gray, J.E. Zoological Miscellaney. London: Treuttel, Wurtz and Co.
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 334. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group; van Dijk PP; Iverson JB; Rhodin AGJ; Shaffer HB; Bour R (2014). "Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (7): 329–479. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
  4. Georges A, Thomson S (2010). "Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2496: 1–37. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2496.1.1.
  5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Emydura victoriae, p. 275).
  6. Gray, John Edward (1841). "A catalogue of the species of reptiles and amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia, and some remarks on their geographical distribution". In: Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia. London: T. and W. Boone, Vol. 2. Appendix E, pp. 422–449.
  7. Iverson, John B., Arthur Georges and Scott Thomson (2001). "The validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington". Journal of Herpetology 35: 361-368. download


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