Parker's snake-necked turtle
Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | Chelidae |
Genus: | Chelodina |
Subgenus: | Chelydera |
Species: | C. parkeri |
Binomial name | |
Chelodina parkeri Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976 | |
Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Etymology
The specific name, parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Fred Parker (born 1941).[4] The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus Chelydera[5]
Names
The Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.[6]:378
Geographic range
Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[7]
References
- Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A (2020). "Chelodina parkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 336. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- Species Chelodina parkeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- 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. (Chelodina parkeri, p. 200).
- Shea, G., Thomson, S. & Georges, A. 2020. The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. Zootaxa 4779(3): 419–437. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9. PDF
- Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). "Freshwater turtles of the TransFly region of Papua New Guinea – notes on diversity, distribution, reproduction, harvest and trade". Wildlife Research 33 (5): 373. doi:10.1071/wr05087
- Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status" (8th Edition). In: Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Pritchard PCH, Mittermeier RA (Editors) (2017). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017.
Further reading
- Rhodin AGJ, Mittermeier RA (1976). "Chelodina parkeri, A New Species of Chelid Turtle from New Guinea, with a Discussion of Chelodina siebenrocki Werner, 1901". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 147 (11): 465-488. (Chelodina parkeri, new species, pp. 477–486).
External links
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Chelodina parkeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
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