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Higher TaxaChelidae, Chelodininae, Pleurodira, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Manning River Sawshelled Turtle, Manning River Turtle, Purvis’ Turtle 
SynonymElseya 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 
DistributionAustralia (New South Wales)

Type locality: 15 km S, 32.3 km E of Nowendoc (31  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: AMS (AM) R44654; now Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (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.


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CommentSynonymy: 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. 
EtymologyEtymology (Flaviemys): The generic name ‘‘Flaviemys’’ is based on a distinctive yellow color pattern on the plastron of the species. From the Greek, flavus (yellow) and emys (turtle).

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.
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  • 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
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