Parker's snake-necked turtle

Parker's snake-necked turtle
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Genus:	Chelodina
Subgenus:	Chelydera
Species:	C. parkeri
Binomial name
	Chelodina parkeri; Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
Synonyms
	Chelodina parkeri ; Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976; Macrochelodina parkeri ; — , Thomson & , 2001; Chelodina (Macrochelodina) parkeri ; — Georges & Thomson, 2010;

Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.

Etymology[]

The specific name, parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist (born 1941).^[4] The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus Chelydera^[5]

Names[]

The Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.^[6]^: 378

Geographic range[]

Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.^[7]

References[]

^ Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A (2020). "Chelodina parkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 336. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ Species Chelodina parkeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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).
^ 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. PDF
^ Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). "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
^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). "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, 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.

External links[]

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Chelodina parkeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.

[1] Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A (2020). "Chelodina parkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

[Fritz_2007-2] Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 336. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

[3] Species Chelodina parkeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

[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).

[sheaetal2020-5] 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. PDF

[Georges-6] Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). "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

[IUCNTurtle-7] Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). "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, 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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