Species Myuchelys purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elseya purvisi 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] [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R44654, 15 km S, 32.3 km E of Nowendoc, NSW [31°39'S 152°04'E].

  Secondary source:

   Shea, G.M. & Sadlier, R.A. 1999. A catalogue of the non-fossil amphibian and reptile type specimens in the collection of the Australian Museum: types currently, previously and purportedly present. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 15: 1-91.

 

Generic Combinations

• Myuchelys purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985). —
  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
• Flaviemys purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985). —
  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 [257]
• Wollumbinia purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985). —
  Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033.
• Myuchelys purvisi (Wells & Wellington, 1985).

 

Introduction

External morphology very similar to Wollumbinia georgesi from which it differs largely in intensity of colouration (Georges & Thomson 2010).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Manning River drainage.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

 

General References

Georges, A. & Thomson, S. 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1-37 [29-30]

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Purvis' Turtle)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Nov-2022	CHELIDAE	30-Nov-2022	MOVED
31-Oct-2018	CHELIDAE	28-Aug-2018	MODIFIED
09-Aug-2012		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
19-Apr-2011		19-Apr-2011	MOVED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)