Biology:Pritchard's snake-necked turtle
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Short description: Species of turtle
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Genus: | Chelodina |
| Subgenus: | Chelodina |
| Species: | C. pritchardi
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| Binomial name | |
| Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994[2]
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Pritchard's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina pritchardi) is a species of turtles in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to a restricted area of Central Province, Papua New Guinea.[5]
Etymology
Both the specific name, pritchardi, and the common name, Pritchard's snake-necked turtle, are in honour of British herpetologist Peter Pritchard.[6]
References
- ↑ Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A. (2020). "Chelodina pritchardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T4609A3004755. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T4609A3004755.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4609/3004755. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ Rhodin, Anders G. J. (1994). "Chelid turtles of the Australian archipelago: I. A new species of Chelodina from southeastern Papua New Guinea". Breviora (497): 1-36. (Chelodina pritchardi, new species).
- ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 326. ISSN 1864-5755. http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ↑ "Chelodina pritchardi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R. Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.]. 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). 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.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina pritchardi, pp. 211-212).
External links
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Chelodina pritchardi (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
Wikidata ☰ Q2303946 entry
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