Subspecies Emydura subglobosa subglobosa (Krefft, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euchelymys subglobosa Krefft, G. 1876. Notes on Australian animals in New Guinea with description of a new species of fresh water tortoise belonging to the genus Euchelymys (Gray). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 1: 390-394 [390].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG C.E.2320, Naiabui, on Amama River, SE Papua New Guinea.
• Emydura albertisii Boulenger, G.A. 1888. On the Chelydoid Chelonians of New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 6: 449-452.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG CE8430-1, Mawatta, Binaturi River (as Katow), Papua New Guinea.
• Tropicochelymys goodei Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [nomen nudum].

 

Generic Combinations

• Emydura subglobosa (Krefft, 1876). —
  Boulenger, G.A. 1888. On the Chelydoid Chelonians of New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 6: 449-452 [26]
• Emydura subglobosa subglobosa (Krefft, 1876). —
  Artner, H. 2003. Die rezenten Schildkrötenarten der Erde. Emys 10(6): IV-XXXVIII

 

Introduction

Distinguished by the bright red colouration of the pastron and ventral surfaces of the limbs, tail and neck (Georges & Thomson 2010).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Jardine River drainage, Australia. Southern New Guinea from but not including the Vogelkopf and Bomeri Peninsulas in the west to the Kemp-Welsh drainage in the east (Rhodin, 1993).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, carnivorous, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, noctidiurnal, oviparous, predator.

 

General References

Georges, A. & Thomson, S. 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1-37 [26]

 

Common Name References

Cann, J. 1998. Australian Freshwater Turtles. Sydney & Singapore : John Cann & Beaumont Publishing 292 pp. [141-145] (The Jardine River Turtle)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
09-Aug-2012		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
29-Apr-2011		29-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)