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Emydura, also known commonly as the Australian short-necked turtles, is a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. The genus was paraphyletic with Elseya . Consequently, it was split into two genera Myuchelys and Elseya by Thomson and Georges in 2009. [ 4 ]
Emydura macquarii (common names include Murray River turtle, [7] Macquarie River turtle, [8] eastern short-necked turtle, eastern short-neck turtle and southern river turtle) [9] is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. It is a wide-ranging species that occurs throughout many of the rivers of the eastern half of Australia.
Emydura tanybaraga Cann, 1997 The northern yellow-faced turtle ( Emydura tanybaraga ) is a species of medium-sized aquatic turtle in the family Chelidae . It inhabits slow-flowing rivers, streams, billabongs and paperbark swamps across much of northern Australia .
Emydura victoriae, also known commonly as the red-faced turtle, Victoria short-necked turtle and Victoria River 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 .
Emydura subglobosa worrelli — Georges & M. Adams , 1996 The red-bellied short-necked turtle ( Emydura subglobosa ), also known commonly as the pink-bellied side-necked turtle and the Jardine River turtle , is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae .
The first attempt to separate this group into its own genus was the genus Euchelymys (Gray, 1871), [10] but this name was subsequently synonymised with Elseya by Boulenger (1889) [6] and the name was made permanently unavailable when Lindholm (1929) [11] set Euchelymys sulcifera (= Emydura macquarii) as the type species, effectively making the ...
Emydura australis, the northern red-faced turtle, is a medium-sized aquatic turtle inhabiting rivers, streams and permanent water bodies across much of northern Australia. [ 1 ] References
The species was first described in 1994 as Emydura lavarackorum after fossil material was found in Riversleigh in northwest Queensland. [1] It was later demonstrated anatomically that because of its anterior bridge struts that it actually belonged to the genus Elseya and further to a living, although undescribed form. [4]