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Parker's snake-necked turtle

Species of turtle

Species of turtle

  • 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.

Taxonomy and etymology

The specific name parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Fred Parker (born 1941). The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus Chelydera

Local Names

The Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.

Geographic range

Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

References

References

  1. Rhodin, A.G.J.. (2020). "''Chelodina parkeri''".
  2. Fritz, Uwe. (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology.
  3. {{EMBL species
  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. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/udlwqs1irypzi8k/2020_Shea_etal_Chelodina_oblonga.pdf?dl=0 PDF]
  6. Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). [http://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR05087 "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
  7. [[Turtle Taxonomy Working Group]] [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). [http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/checklist/ "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, [[Peter Pritchard. 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.
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