Emydura victoriae (GRAY, 1842)

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Higher Taxa	Chelidae, Chelodininae, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Northern Red-faced Turtle, Victoria Short-necked Turtle
Synonym	Hydraspis victoriae GRAY 1842: 55 Chelymys victoriae — BAUR 1888: 419 Chelymys victoriae — BAUR 1889 Emydura victoriae — WORRELL 1963 Tropicochelymys victoriae — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 9 Emydura victoriae — KING & BURKE 1989 Emydura victoriae — GEORGES 1996 Emydura victoriae — COGGER 2000: 199 Emydura victoriae — GEORGES & THOMSON 2010 Emydura victoriae — KEHLMAIER et al. 2019 Emydura victoriae — TTWG 2021
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) Type locality: "Victoria River, North-west coast of New Holland" (Northern Territory, Australia)
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.5.96, Victoria River, NT, collected Capt. W. Campbell (in error for Capt. W. Chambers). See Cann & Sadlier (2017) for discussion on the extent of the type series and the identity of the holotype. The lectotype designation of BNMH 1947.3.5.95 by Wells & Wellington (1985) is invalid, as this specimen was received by the British Museum after the description of the species. See also Kehlmaier et al. 2019 for further details.
Diagnosis
Comment	Emydura worrelli is considered by some authors as a synonym of E. victoriae, but treated here as a subspecies of E. subglobosa. Distribution: Map in MACCORD et al. (2003) Habitat: freshwater (rivers, swamps)
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp. 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 Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Georges, A. 1996. Electrophoretic delineation of species boundaries within the short-necked freshwater turtles of Australia (Testudines: Chelidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (1996), 118: 241–260. - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of some new species of Reptiles, chiefly from the British Museum collection. Zoological Miscellany 2: 57-59. - 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 McCord, W.P.; Joseph-Ouni, M. & Cann, J. 2003. Chelonian Illustrations #7. Short-neck, Western Swamp, and Pig-Nose Turtles from Australia and New Guinea. Reptilia (GB) (27): 64-68 - 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.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here Wells, R. W. and Wellington, C. R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series (1): 1-61 [sometimes cited as 1983] - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Worrell, E. 1963. Reptiles of Australia. Angus & Robertson (Sydney), xv + 207 pp
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/pub/aerg/herps/turtles.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Testudines/Cheluidae/Emydura/victoriae http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DEE5711F-B3E6-4511-80B0… http://zoobank.org/2EBB5713-B3FB-4F65-8EE1-93726E5C-D39E Google images

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