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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Reptilia (class)  »  Testudines (order)  »  Chelidae (family)

CAAB Code: 39 006001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Chelodina canni   McCord & Thomson, 2002

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 39 - Reptilia Reptiles
Family: 39 6 Chelidae (Austro-American sideneck turtles) - show full list
Common Name: Cann's long-necked turtle
Common Names List:
New Guinea snake-necked turtle (misapplied name)
Cann's longneck turtle
Organism Type: a chelid turtle
Synonyms: Chelodina novaeguineae
Chelodina rankini
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Freshwater
Parent Codes: 39 006901     Chelodina spp.
Scientific Name Notes:Originally considered conspecific with New Guinea species C. novaeguineae, recognised as distinct by McCord & Thomson, 2002. Previous records of C. novaeguineae from Australia should now be referred to this taxon. Considered to include Chelodina rankini as cited by Cann, 2008, refer Georges & Thomson, 2010.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f6f1c706-9d0f-4fa5-9cfe-0b52f5ff0130
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1447989
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-04
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against
:
Georges A., Thomson, S., 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species., Zootaxa, Vol. 2496: 1-37.
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