Biology:Red-faced 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: | Emydura |
| Species: | E. victoriae
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| Binomial name | |
| Emydura victoriae (Gray, 1842)[1]
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The red-faced turtle, Emydura victoriae (Gray, 1842), 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 .
Etymology
The specific name, victoriae, refers to the Victoria River (Northern Territory).[5]
Taxonomy
This species has a disrupted nomenclatural history. For many years it appeared in the literature as Emydura australis (Gray 1841: 445)[6] however in 1983 this name was synonymised with Emydura macquarii, incorrectly according to Iverson et al. 2001.[7] Since this time the species has been known as Emydura victoriae this name too has nomenclatural issues[7] and it is possible the names may eventually be reversed again.
Synonymy
- Hydraspis australis Gray 1841: 445 (nomen dubium)
- Hydraspis victoriae Gray 1842: 55
- Chelymys australis — Gray 1871: 336
- Chelymys victoriae — Gray 1872: 21
- Emydura australis — Boulenger 1889: ix[8]
- Emydura victoriae — Worrell 1964: 17
- Tropicochelymys victoriae — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 9
- Emydura victoria Cann, 1997: 28 (ex errore)
Nota bene: Synonyms without dashes are new taxa; synonyms with dashes are just new combinations.
References
- ↑ Gray, J.E. (1842). "Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians". pp 51-57. In: Gray, J.E. Zoological Miscellaney. London: Treuttel, Wurtz and Co.
- ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 334. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. https://www.webcitation.org/5v20ztMND?url=http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ↑ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group, van Dijk PP, Iverson JB, Rhodin AGJ, Shaffer HB, Bour R (2014). "Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status". Chelonian Research Monographs 5 (7): 329–479. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014. http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v7_2014.pdf.
- ↑ Georges A, Thomson S (2010). "Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species" (PDF). Zootaxa 2496: 1–37. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02496p037.pdf.
- ↑ 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. (Emydura victoriae, p. 275).
- ↑ Gray, John Edward (1841). "A catalogue of the species of reptiles and amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia, and some remarks on their geographical distribution". In: Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia. London: T. and W. Boone, Vol. 2. Appendix E, pp. 422–449.
- ↑ Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 Iverson, John B., Arthur Georges and Scott Thomson (2001). "The validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington". Journal of Herpetology 35: 361-368. download
- ↑ Boulenger, George A. (1889). Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). 311 pp.
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