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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, 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 ]
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 species is native to Australia and New Guinea .
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 .
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]
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Emydura novaeguineae Boulenger 1888:450; Elseya novaeguineae Goode 1967:ix; Elseya latisternum novaeguineae Blackmore 1969:282; Elseya novaeguinea Burbidge et al. 1974:393 ; Elseya dentata novaeguineae Obst 1985:223; Elseya (Hanwarachelys) novaeguineae (restricted, Thomson et al. 2015) [4]
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