Parker's snake-necked turtle

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Parker's snake-necked turtle
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]
  • Chelodina parkeri
    Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
  • Macrochelodina parkeri
    Iverson, Thomson & Georges, 2001
  • Chelodina (Macrochelodina) parkeri
    — Georges & Thomson, 2010

Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.

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Taxonomy and 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]

Local 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]

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References

  1. Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A. (2020). "Chelodina parkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T4608A21644618. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T4608A21644618.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 336. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . ISSN   1864-5755.
  3. Species Chelodina parkeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  4. 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).
  5. 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
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  7. 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 Monographs7: 1–292. doi : 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017.

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