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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 ]
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 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.
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 .
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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 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 smaller members of the family include the Macleay River turtle (Emydura macquarii) at around 16 cm, [5] twist-necked turtle (Platemys platycephala) at 18 cm and the western swamp turtle (Pseudemydura umbrina) at 15 cm, whereas the larger species such as the mata mata (Chelus fimbriata) and the white-throated snapping turtle (Elseya albagula ...