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McCord, W. P., & Joseph-Ouni, M. (2007). A new genus of australian longneck turtle (testudines: chelidae) and a new species of macrochelodina from the kimberley region of western australia (australia). Reptilia GB, 52, 47–52.
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| Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: McCord2007a View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Australien = Australia, Chelidae, Chelodina, Chelodina oblonga, Chelodina rugosa, Chelodina walloyarina, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises, Systematik = taxonomy Creators: Joseph-Ouni, McCord Collection: Reptilia GB |
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Abstract. Because the holotype of Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841, presently accepted as the longneck of southwestern Western Australia, is actually a member of the Macrochelodina rugosa complex of northern Australia, the taxonomic confusion is herein remedied by the designation of a neotype for C. oblonga. Because it is so distinctive and represents a monophyletic lineage separate from other Chelodina and Macrochelodina, we allocate this species to Macrodiremys gen. nov. with Macrodiremys (Chelodina) oblonga (Gray, 1841) designated herein as the type species. After many years of calling the longneck turtle of the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia the “Kimberley rugosa”, data were gathered to compare the Kimberley and all other described Macrochelodina species in the M. rugosa complex, leading to the description here of a morphologically distinct species, Macrochelodina walloyarrina sp. nov.
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