Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelidae
Subfamilia: Chelodininae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenus: Macrochelodina
Species (6 + 2†): C. burrungandjii – C. expansa – C. kuchlingi – C. parkeri – C. rugosa – C. walloyarrina – †C. alanrixi – †C. insculpta

Name

Macrochelodina Wells & Wellington, 1985:9

Type Species: Chelodina oblonga Gray 1842

References

• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page. 
• Iverson J, Thomson S, Georges A. 2001. Validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington. Journal of Herpetology 35: 365–368.

• 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. 

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