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Chelodina burrungandjii THOMSON, KENNETT & GEORGES, 2000

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Higher TaxaChelidae, Chelodininae, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Arnhem Land Long-Necked turtle
E: Kimberley Snake-necked Turtle [walloyarrina] 
SynonymChelodina burrungandjii THOMSON, KENNETT & GEORGES 2000: 676
Macrochelodina burrungandjii — ARTNER 2003
Macrochelodina burrungandjii — FRITZ & HAVAS 2007
Chelodina (Macrochelodina) burrungandjii — GEORGES & THOMSON 2010
Chelodina (Macrochelodina) burrungandjii — TTWG 2014
Chelodina burrungandjii — KEHLMAIER et al. 2019
Chelodina (Chelydera) burrungandjii — SHEA et al. 2020
Chelodina burrungandjii burrungandjii — SHEA et al. 2020 (by implication)
Chelodina burrungandjii — TTWG 2021 
DistributionN Australia (Arnhem Land)

Type locality: Koolpin Gorge, South Alligator River (13° 28’ S, 132° 38’ E).  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: NTM 16010, adult female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: see walloyarrina. 
CommentHabitat: freshwater (rivers, swamps)

Synonymy: Chelodina walloyarrina was not listed by COGGER 2014 and probably considered as a synonym of Chelodina burrungandjii by him but more recently considered as a valid species.

Hybridization: C. rugosa has hybrids with both C. burrungandjii and C. canni, including 3 way hybrids (is F1 hybrids breed with a 3rd species). (Scott Thompson, on Taxacom, 28 May 2024) 
EtymologyNamed after the proper noun Burrungandji used by the Gagadju people of the western Arnhem Land region (Gundjeihmi language) to distinguish the turtle from all other turtles in the region (Thomson et al. 2000). 
References
  • Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • DOODY, J. SEAN; RICHARD VOGT, SIMON CLULOW & DAVID RHIND. 2021. CHELODINA WALLOYARRINA (Kimberley Sandstone Longneck Turtle). BEHAVIOR. Herpetological Review 52 (2): 386–387. - get paper here
  • Ellis, Ryan J. and Arthur Georges 2015. An annotated type catalogue of the turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 30: 52-60, DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.30(1).2015.052-060 - get paper here
  • Fritz, U. & Havas, P. 2007. CHECKLIST OF CHELONIANS OF THE WORLD. Vertebrate Zoology 57(2): 149-368 - get paper here
  • Georges, A. & Thomson, S. 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1–37 - get paper here
  • Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here
  • Kehlmaier, C., Zhang, X., Georges, A., Campbell, P. D., Thomson, S., & Fritz, U. 2019. Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports, 9(1): 5841 - get paper here
  • Maier, C R & Sonneman, T 2018. Chelodina burrungandjii (Sandstone Snake-necked Turtle) Maximum size. Herpetological Review 49 (3): 521-522 - get paper here
  • McCord, W. P., and M. Joseph-Ouni. 2007. A New Genus of Australian Longneck Turtle (Testudines: Chelidae) and a New Species of Macrochelodina from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia (Australia). Reptilia (GB) (53): 56-64 - get paper here
  • SHEA, GLENN; SCOTT THOMSON & ARTHUR GEORGES 2020. The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 419–437 - get paper here
  • Thomson,S., Kennett, R. & Georges,A. 2000. A new species of long-necked turtle (Chelidae: Chelodina) from the sandstone plateau of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia. Chelonian Conserv. Biol. 3: 675-685
  • TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour] 2014. Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014 - get paper here
  • TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
  • Valverde, J. 2010. Schlangenhalsschildkröten. Reptilia (Münster) 15 (85): 16-23 [erratum in 86: 10] - get paper here
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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