Pritchard's snake-necked turtle

Pritchard's snake-necked turtle
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Subfamily:	Chelodininae
Genus:	Chelodina
Subgenus:	(Chelodina)
Species:	C. pritchardi
Binomial name
Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994 Chelodina (Chelodina) pritchardi — TTWG, 2014

Pritchard's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina pritchardi ) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

Etymology

Both the specific name, pritchardi, and the common name, Pritchard's snake-necked turtle, are in honour of British herpetologist Peter Pritchard.^[4]

References

1. Rhodin, Anders G. J. (1994). "Chelid turtles of the Australian archipelago: I. A new species of Chelodina from southeastern Papua New Guinea". Breviora (497): 1-36. (Chelodina pritchardi, new species).
2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 326. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
3. "Chelodina pritchardi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina pritchardi, pp. 211-212).

External links

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Chelodina pritchardi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.