Namoi River snapping turtle

Namoi River snapping turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Testudines
Suborder:Pleurodira
Family:Chelidae
Genus:Myuchelys
Species: M. bellii
Binomial name
Myuchelys bellii
(Gray, 1844)[1][3]
Synonyms[4][5]
  • Phrynops bellii
    Gray, 1844
  • Hydraspis bellii
    — Gray, 1855
  • Elseya bellii
    — Cann, 1998
  • Wollumbinia bellii
    — Wells, 2007
  • Myuchelys bellii
    — Thomson & Georges, 2009

The Namoi River snapping turtle (Myuchelys bellii ), also commonly known as Bell's turtle, the Namoi River elseya, or Bell's saw-shelled turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.[1][2][6] The species is endemic to New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, bellii, and some of the common names, are in honor of English zoologist Thomas Bell.[7]

Geographic range

M. bellii occurs in the upper reaches of the Namoi, Gwydir, Macdonald, and Severn Rivers in northern New South Wales, Australia.[2][4][8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rhodin 2011, p. 000.213.
  2. 1 2 3 "Elseya bellii (Bell's turtle, Bell's snapping surtle, Namoi River snapping turtle)". IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Gray, John Edward (1844). Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). viii + 80 pp. (Phrynops bellii, new species, pp. 41-42).
  4. 1 2 Fritz 2007, p. 328.
  5. ↑ "Myuchelys bellii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  6. ↑ "Approved Conservation Advice for Elseya belli (Bell's turtle)" (PDF). 26 March 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  7. ↑ 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. (Elseya bellii, p. 22).
  8. ↑ New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service (2003). Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW. ISBN 0-7313-6673-5.

Further reading

  • Cann J (1998). Australian Freshwater Turtles. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing. 292 pp. ISBN 978-9810406868.
  • Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17.
  • Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Bour, Roger (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the World, 2011 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status". Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-22.
  • Thomson S, Georges A (2009). "Myuchelys gen nov. — a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae)". Zootaxa 2053: 32-42.
  • Wells RW (2007). "Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A new genus of the family Chelidae from eastern Australia". Australian Biodiversity Record (3): 1-13.
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