Parker's snake-necked turtle

Parker's snake-necked turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Chelodininae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenus: Chelodina
Species: C. parkeri
Binomial name
Chelodina parkeri
Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
Synonyms[1]
  • Chelodina parkeri Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
  • Macrochelodina parkeri Iverson, Thomson & Georges, 2001

The Parker's snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family. It is found in West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Sources

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


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