Parker's snake-necked turtle
{{Short description|Species of turtle}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Chelodina parkeri 1zz.jpg
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Chelodina
| parent = Chelodina (Chelydera)
| species = parkeri
| authority = Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976
| synonyms =
- Chelodina parkeri
{{small|Rhodin & Mittermeier, 1976}} - Macrochelodina parkeri
{{small|— Iverson, Thomson & Georges, 2001}} - Chelodina (Macrochelodina) parkeri
{{small|— Georges & Thomson, 2010}}
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Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.
Taxonomy and etymology
The specific name parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Fred Parker (born 1941).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Chelodina parkeri, p. 200). The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus ChelyderaShea, G., Thomson, S. & Georges, A. 2020. The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. Zootaxa 4779(3): 419–437. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/udlwqs1irypzi8k/2020_Shea_etal_Chelodina_oblonga.pdf?dl=0 PDF]
Local Names
The Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.Georges A, Guarino F, Bito B (2006). [http://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR05087 "Freshwater turtles of the TransFly region of Papua New Guinea – notes on diversity, distribution, reproduction, harvest and trade"]. Wildlife Research 33 (5): 373. {{doi|10.1071/wr05087}}{{rp|378}}
Geographic range
Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP]. (2017). [http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/checklist/ "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status" (8th Edition)]. In: Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Pritchard PCH, Mittermeier RA (Editors) (2017). 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}}.
References
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Further reading
- Rhodin AGJ, Mittermeier RA (1976). "Chelodina parkeri, A New Species of Chelid Turtle from New Guinea, with a Discussion of Chelodina siebenrocki Werner, 1901". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 147 (11): 465–488. (Chelodina parkeri, new species, pp. 477–486).
External links
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Category:Turtles of New Guinea
Category:Reptiles described in 1976