Emydura victoriae

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Red-faced turtle
Emydura australis lateral.gif
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Emydura
Species:
E. victoriae
Binomial name
Emydura victoriae
(Gray, 1842)[1]
Synonyms[2][3][4]

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Emydura victoriae, also known commonly as the red-faced turtle and the Victoria short-necked turtle, is a species of medium-sized aquatic turtle in the family Chelidae. The species inhabits rivers, streams and permanent water bodies across much of northern Australia.

Etymology[]

The specific name, victoriae, refers to the Victoria River (Northern Territory).[5]

Taxonomy[]

The species E. victiriae has a disrupted nomenclatural history. For many years it appeared in the literature as Emydura australis (Gray 1841: 445)[6] however in 1983 this name was synonymised with Emydura macquarii, incorrectly according to Iverson et al. 2001.[7] Since this time the species has been known as Emydura victoriae this name too has nomenclatural issues[7] and it is possible the names may eventually be reversed again.

Synonymy[]

  • Hydraspis victoriae Gray 1842: 55
  • Chelymys victoriae — Gray 1872: 21
  • Emydura victoriae — Worrell 1964: 17
  • Tropicochelymys victoriae — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 9
  • Emydura victoria , 1997: 28 (ex errore)

Nota bene: Synonyms without dashes are new taxa; synonyms with dashes are just new combinations.

References[]

  1. ^ Gray, J.E. (1842). "Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians". pp 51-57. In: Gray, J.E. Zoological Miscellaney. London: Treuttel, Wurtz and Co.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 334. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group; van Dijk PP; Iverson JB; Rhodin AGJ; Shaffer HB; Bour R (2014). "Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (7): 329–479. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
  4. ^ Georges A, Thomson S (2010). "Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2496: 1–37. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2496.1.1.
  5. ^ 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. (Emydura victoriae, p. 275).
  6. ^ Gray, John Edward (1841). "A catalogue of the species of reptiles and amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia, and some remarks on their geographical distribution". In: Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia. London: T. and W. Boone, Vol. 2. Appendix E, pp. 422–449.
  7. ^ a b Iverson, John B., Arthur Georges and Scott Thomson (2001). "The validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington". Journal of Herpetology 35: 361-368. download


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