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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 006018 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Myuchelys georgesi   (Cann, 1997)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 39 - Reptilia Reptiles
Family: 39 6 Chelidae (Austro-American sideneck turtles) - show full list
Common Name: Georges' helmeted turtle
Common Names List:
Organism Type: a chelid turtle
Synonyms: Elseya georgesi
Elseya latisternum georgesi
Wollumbinia georgesi
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Freshwater
Parent Codes: 39 006905     Myuchelys spp.
Scientific Name Notes:Cited as Elseya latisternum georgesi in Artner, 2008. The name Wollumbinia georgesi is used for this taxon in some sources although the genus Wollumbinia Wells, 2007 is considered not validly published according to Georges & Thomson, 2010.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.name:5d8fd61e-0813-42f5-afa3-0d9b0af5629c
Name status: synonym    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1469647
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-05-05
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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