Taxonavigation

Familia: Carettochelyidae
Subfamilia: Carettochelyinae
Genus: Carettochelys
Species: Carettochelys insculpta

Name

• Carettochelys insculpta Ramsay 1886: 158
  • Holotype: AM R3677
  • Type locality: Fly River, Papua New Guinea.

Synonyms

• Carettochelys insculptus Ramsay 1886 (error typographicus)
  • Carettochelys insculpta Boulenger 1889
  • Carettochelys insculpta Ernst & Barbour 1989
  • Carettochelys insculpta Cogger 2000: 186
  • Carettochelys insculpta Georges & Thomson 2010
  • Carettochelys insculpta TEWG 2015
  • Carettochelys insculpta TTWG 2017

References

Ramsay, E. P. 1886. On a new genus and species of fresh water tortoise from the Fly River, New Guinea. Proc. Linn. Soc., New South Wales (2) 1 (Part 1): 158-162

• Georges, A. & Thomson, S. 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1–37. Preview PDF Reference page. 

• Turtle Extinctions Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., de la Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino, M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2015. Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. Download

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). (ISBN: 978-1-5323-5026-9). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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