Myuchelys purvisi (WELLS & WELLINGTON, 1985)

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Higher Taxa	Chelidae, Chelodininae, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Manning River Sawshelled Turtle, Manning River Turtle, Purvis’ Turtle
Synonym	Elseya purvisi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 8 Elseya purvisi — CANN 1998 Elseya purvisi — IVERSON et al. 2001 Elseya purvisi — COGGER 2000 (fide IVERSON et al. 2001) Elseya purvisi — BONIN et al 2006 Wollumbinia purvisi — WELLS 2007 Elseya latisternum purvisi — ARTNER 2008 Wollumbinia purvisi — WELLS 2009 Myuchelys purvisi — THOMSON & GEORGES 2009 Wollumbinia purvisi — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Myuchelys purvisi — GEORGES & THOMSON 2010 Flaviemys purvisi — LE et al. 2013 Flaviemys purvisi — TTWG 2014: 434 Wollumbinia purvisi — COGGER 2014: 256 Myuchelys purvisi — SPINKS et al. 2015 Myuchelys purvisi — TTWG 2017: 201 Wollumbinia purvisi — SWAN et al. 2017 Wollumbinia purvisi — CANN & SADLIER 2017 Myuchelys purvisi — THOMSON et al. 2021 Myuchelys purvisi — TTWG 2021
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales) Type locality: 15 km S, 32.3 km E of Nowendoc (31
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: AMS (AM) R44654; now Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (Flaviemys): A genus of short-necked turtles with the following character combination: (1) broad cervical scute; (2) bright yellow coloration on the ventral marginal and the plastron; (3) bright yellow stripe on the ventral aspects of legs, running from the plastron to the distal of the first toes; (4) three bright yellow stripes on the tail, with one mid-ventral and the others lateral; (5) bright yellow marking on the ventral distal tip of the tail; (6) neural bones present.
Comment	Synonymy: Might be synonymous to E. georgesi from which it differs “in a number of subtle colour differences... including a black horizontal bar through the eye” (which purvisi has but georgesi lacks; COGGER 2000). Myuchelys purvisi and M. georgesi are cryptic species (Georges & Adams, 1996; Thomson & Georges, 1996) differing overtly only in intensity of colouration. Type species: Elseya purvisi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 8 is the type species of Flaviemys LE et al. 2013. The genus was rejected by Spinks et al. 2015, based on molecular data.
Etymology	Named for Malcolm Purvis of North Sydney, New South Wales, noted herpetologist [from GEORGES & THOMSON 2010].
References	Artner, H. 2008. The world's extant turtle species, Part 1. Emys 15 (3): 4-32 Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp. Cann, John 1998. Australian Freshwater Turtles. Beaumont Publishing, Singapore: 292 pp. Cann, John; Ross Sadlier 2017. FRESHWATER TURTLES OF AUSTRALIA. CSIRO Publishing, 464 pp. - 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. & Thomson, S. 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1–37 - get paper here Georges, A.; J. Birrell, K. M. Saint, W. McCord und S. C. Donnellan 1998. A phylogeny for side-necked turtles (Chelonia: Pleurodira) based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 67: 213-246 [1999] - get paper here Iverson, John B., Scott A. Thomson and Arthur Georges 2001. Validity of taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington. Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 361-368 - get paper here Le, Minh, Brendan N. Reid, William P. McCord, Eugenia Naro-Maciel, Christopher J. Raxworthy, George Amato, Arthur Georges 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 (2): 251–258 - get paper here Spinks, Phillip Q.; Arthur Georges and H. Bradley Shaffer 2015. Phylogenetic Uncertainty and Taxonomic Re-revisions: An Example from the Australian Short-necked Turtles (Testudines: Chelidae). Copeia 2015 (3): 536-540 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Thomson, R. C., Spinks, P. Q., & Shaffer, H. B. 2021. A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (7) - get paper here Thomson, S. & Georges, A. 2009. Myuchelys gen. nov. —a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae). Zootaxa 2053: 32-42 - get paper here 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; Anders G.J. Rhodin, John B. iverson, Roger Bour, Uwe Fritz, Arthur GeoRges, H. BRadley Shaffer, and Peter Paul van Dijk 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., 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 7:1–292. doi: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017 - 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 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 (3): 1–13 - 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 Wells, Richard W. 2009. Some Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Considerations on the Class Reptilia in Australia. A New Species of Freshwater Turtle in the Genus Wollumbinia Wells 2007 (Reptilia: Chelidae) from Eastern Australia. Australian Biodiversity Record (1): 1-12 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
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