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Myuchelys novaeguineae (MEYER, 1874)

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Higher TaxaChelidae, Testudines (turtles) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesNew Guinea Snapping Turtle 
SynonymPlatemys novae-guineae MEYER 1874
Emydura schultzei VOGT 1911
Emydura novae-guineae — BOULENGER 1888
Elseya novaeguineae — GOODE 1967
Elseya latisternum novaeguineae — BLACKMORE 1969
Emydura schultzei — WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977
Emydura novaeguineae — WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977
Elseya dentata novaeguineae — OBST 1985
Elseya schultzei — GEORGES & THOMSON 2003
Elseya novaeguineae — BONIN et al 2006
Emydura schultzei — FRITZ & HAVAS 2007
Myuchelys novaeguineae — GEORGES & THOMSON 2010 
DistributionNew Guinea

Type locality: Passim, NW New Guinea

schultzei: Papua New Guinea; Type locality: river west of mouth of Tami River, new Guinea.  
TypesHolotype: MTKD D8222, according to Obst 1976 
CommentStatus unclear; recent authors don't mention this species any more. McDowell 1983 considered this a synonym of Elseya dentata. FRITZ & BAUR (1995) report vital hybrids between Emydura subglobosa and Elseya novaeguineae and between Emydura subglobosa and Chelodina longicollis.

GOODE (1967) also synonymized E. schultzei with Emydura (= Elseya) novaeguineae and Emydura subglobosa and Emydura albertisii with Emydura krefftii.

Reproduction: oviparous. 
References
  • Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp.
  • Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London
  • Fritz, U. & Baur, M. 1995. Schildkröten-Hybriden. 1. Halswender-Schildkröten (Pleurodira). Herpetofauna 17 (94): 28-34 - 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. 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.
  • 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.; Alacs, E.; Pauza, M.; Kinginapi, F.; Ona, A. & Eisemberg, C. 2008. Freshwater turtles of the Kikori Drainage, Papua New Guinea, with special reference to the pig-nosed turtle, Carettochelys insculpta. Wildlife Research 35: 700–711
  • Goode, J. 1967. Freshwater tortoises of Australia and New Guinea. Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 154 pp.
  • Hennig, Andreas S. 2011. Kein „Land unter“ in Aquaterrarien – Landteile für Wasser schildkröten Draco 12 (46): 22-28 - get paper here
  • McDowell, S.B. 1983. The genus Emydura (Testudines: Chelidae) in New Guinea with notes on the penial morphology of Pleurodira. In: RHODIN & MIYATA (eds.): Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, Mus. Comp. Zool. pp. 169-189
  • Meyer,A.B. 1874. [Eine Mittheilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Meyer] über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 - get paper here
  • Obst, F.J. 1976. Über den Holotypus von Platemys novaeguineae Meyer, 1874 (Reptilia, Chelonia). Zoologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, 34:43-46
  • Ouwens, P.A. 1914. List of Dutch East Indian Chelonians in the Buitenzong Zoological Museum. Contributions a la Faune des Indes Neelandaises. 1:29-32
  • Thomson,S., White,A. & Georges,A. 1997. Re-evaluation of Emydura lavarackorum: identification of a living fossil. Mem. Queensland Mus. 42 (1): 327-336
  • Vogt,T. 1911. Reptilien und Amphibien aus Neu-Guinea. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde 1911 (9): 410-420
  • Wermuth, H., and R. Mertens. 1977. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynchocephalia. Das Tierreich. Berlin. 100: i-xxvii, 1-174
  • Winkler, J.D. 2006. Testing phylogenetic implications of eggshell characters in side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira). Zoology 109: 127-136
 
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