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Australasian Snake-necked Turtles
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Australasian Snake-necked Turtles

Chelodina

Chelodina, collectively known as snake-necked turtles, is a large and diverse genus of long-necked Chelid turtles with a complicated nomenclatural history. Although in the past Macrochelodina and Macrodiremys have been considered separate genera and prior to that all the same, they are now considered subgenera of the Chelodina.

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17 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 16 known species

Eastern Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina longicollis

Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina oblonga

Broad-shelled Turtle

speciesChelodina expansa

Cann's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina canni

Northern Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina rugosa

Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina mccordi

Darwin Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina kurrichalpongo

Flat-shelled Turtle

speciesChelodina steindachneri

Parker's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina parkeri

Kuchling's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina kuchlingi

New Guinea Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina novaeguineae

Reimann's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina reimanni

Arnhem Land Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina burrungandjii

Gunalen's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina gunaleni

Pritchard's Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina pritchardi

Aramia Snake-necked Turtle

speciesChelodina ipudinapi

Eastern × Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle

hybridChelodina longicollis × oblonga

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39589.