Parker's snake-necked turtle

Species of turtle

Parker's snake-necked turtle
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenus: Chelydera
Species:
C. parkeri
Binomial name
Chelodina parkeri
Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Chelodina parkeri
    Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
  • Macrochelodina parkeri
    — Iverson, Thomson & Georges, 2001
  • Chelodina (Macrochelodina) parkeri
    — Georges & Thomson, 2010

Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.

Taxonomy and etymology

The specific name parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Fred Parker (born 1941).[4] The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus Chelydera[5]

Local Names

The Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.[6]: 378 

Geographic range

Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[7]

References

  1. ^ Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A. (2020). "Chelodina parkeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T4608A21644618. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T4608A21644618.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 336. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
  3. ^ Species Chelodina parkeri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina parkeri, p. 200).
  5. ^ Shea, G., Thomson, S. & Georges, A. 2020. The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. Zootaxa 4779(3): 419–437. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9. PDF
  6. ^ Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). "Freshwater turtles of the TransFly region of Papua New Guinea – notes on diversity, distribution, reproduction, harvest and trade". Wildlife Research 33 (5): 373. doi:10.1071/wr05087
  7. ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status" (8th Edition). In: Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Pritchard PCH, Mittermeier RA (Editors) (2017). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017.

Further reading

  • Rhodin AGJ, Mittermeier RA (1976). "Chelodina parkeri, A New Species of Chelid Turtle from New Guinea, with a Discussion of Chelodina siebenrocki Werner, 1901". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 147 (11): 465–488. (Chelodina parkeri, new species, pp. 477–486).

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Taxon identifiers
Chelodina parkeri