Species Pseudemydura umbrina Siebenrock, 1901
Western Swamp Turtle
- Pseudemydura umbrina Siebenrock, F. 1901. Beschreibung einer neuen Schildkrötengattung aus der Familie Chelydidae aus Australien: Pseudemydura. Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 38: 248-251 [249].
Type data:
Holotype NHMW 89 (8450)=1296, Australia. - Emydura inspectata Glauert, L. 1954. Herpetological miscellanea. IV. A new swamp tortoise from the Swan River district. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 125-127 fig. 2 [125, figs].
Type data:
Holotype WAM R11092, Warbrook, c. 24 mi[les] N of Perth, WA.
Introduction
P. umbrina is the most threatened reptile in Australia with the smallest surving wild population numbering less than 200 individuals.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Restricted to the ephemeral swamps in the Swan Drainage, near Perth, Western Australia
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Ecological Descriptors
Amphibious, noctidiurnal, predator, swamp.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, oviparous, general carnivore.
General References
Burbidge, A.A. 1981. The ecology of the western swamp tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina (Testudines: Chelidae). Australian Wildlife Research 8: 203-223
Williams, E.E. 1958. Rediscovery of the Australian chelid genus Pseudemydura Siebenrock (Chelidae: Testudines). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 84: 1-8
Zhang, X., Unmack, P.J., Kuchling, G., Wang, Y. & Georges, A. 2017. Resolution of the enigmatic phylogenetic relationship of the critically endangered Western Swamp Tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina (Pleurodira: Chelidae) using a complete mitochondrial genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 115: 58–61
Common Name References
CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Western Swamp Turtle)
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |