Pritchard's snake-necked turtle

Pritchard's snake-necked turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Chelodininae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenus: Chelodina
Species: C. pritchardi
Binomial name
Chelodina pritchardi
Rhodin, 1994[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994

The Pritchard's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina pritchardi) is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Rhodin AGJ. 1994a. Chelid turtles of the Australian archipelago: I. A new species of Chelodina from southeastern Papua New Guinea. Breviora 497: 1-36.
  2. Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 326. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

External links

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