Genus Myuchelys Thompson & Georges, 2009

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• Myuchelys Thomson, S. & Georges, A. 2009. Myuchelys gen. nov. — a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae). Zootaxa 2035: 35-42.

  Type species:

   Elseya latisternum Gray, 1867 by original designation.
• Wollumbinia Wells, R.W. 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 2007(No 3): 1-12 [1] [nomen nudum].

  Type species:

   Elseya latisternum Gray, 1867 by original designation.
• Flaviemys Le, M., Reid, B.N., McCord, W.P., Naro-Maciel, E., Raxworthy, C.J., Amato, G. & Georges, A. 2013. Resolving the phylogenetic history of the short-necked turtles, genera Elseya and Myuchelys (Testudines: Chelidae) from Australia and New Guinea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 251–258.

  Type species:

   Elseya purvisi Wells & Wellington, 1985 (in error cited as Myuchelys purvisi (Wells & Wellington 1985)) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fritz, U. & Havas, P. 2007. Checklist of Chelonians of the World. Vertebrate Zoology 57(2): 149-368 [323]
• Spinks, P.Q., Georges, A. & Shaffer, H.B. 2015. Phylogenetic uncertainty and taxonomic re-revisions: An example from the Australian Short-necked Turtles (Testudines: Chelidae). Copeia 103(3): 536–540
• Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P. [Turtle Taxonomy Working Group] 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Conservation Foundation, Vol. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 7 pp. 1–292. [200]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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