| Manning River snapping turtle | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelodininae |
| Genus: | Myuchelys Le, Reid, McCord, Naro-Maciel, Raxworthy, Amato and Georges, 2013 |
| Species: | M. purvisi
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| Binomial name | |
| Myuchelys purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985)
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| Synonyms12 | |
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The Manning River snapping turtle (Myuchelys purvisi),1 or Manning River saw-shelled turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae, endemic to Australia.
References
References
- Rhodin, Anders G.J.; Inverson, John B.; Roger, Bour; Fritz, Uwe; Georges, Arthur; Shaffer, H. Bradley; van Dijk, Peter Paul (August 3, 2017). "Turtles of the world, 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status(8th Ed.)" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 7. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 330. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
External links
External links
- Media related to Myuchelys purvisi at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Myuchelys purvisi at Wikispecies
- The Aussie Manning River Turtle Ark Conservation Project