Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelidae
Subfamilia: Chelodininae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenera (3): Chelodina – Macrochelodina – Macrodiremys

Name

• Chelodina Fitzinger, 1826

Type species: Chelodina longicollis

Synonyms

• Chelodina (Shaw, 1794), type species Chelodina longicollis by original designation.
  • Hydraspis Bell, 1828b. Type species Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794).
  • Chelyodina Agassiz, 1846. Type species Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794).
  • Chelydura Oudemans, 1894. Type species Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794).
  • Chelidura Oudemans, 1894. Type species Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794).
  • Macrochelodina Wells & Wellington, 1985. Type species Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841 = Chelodina colliei
  • Macrodiremys McCord and Uoni, 2007. Type species Chelodina oblonga McCord and Uoni (2007) junior subjective synonym of Chelodina colliei

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue classification der reptilien nach ihren natürlichen verwandtschaften. Nebst einer verwandtschafts-tafel und einem verzeichnisse der reptilien-sammlung des K. K. zoologischen museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner, Wien. vii+66 pp. Reference page. 

• 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. 

• Kehlmaier, C., Zhang, X., Georges, A., Campbell, P.D., Thomson, S., & Fritz, U. 2019. Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports (2019) 9:5841 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42310-x

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page. 

• 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. 

References

• ZooBank

Vernacular names

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