Emydura victoriae, also known commonly as the red-faced turtle, Victoria short-necked turtle and Victoria River turtle, is a species of medium-sized aquatic turtle in the family Chelidae. The species inhabits rivers, streams and permanent water bodies across much of northern Australia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Genus: | Emydura |
| Species: | E. victoriae
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| Emydura victoriae | |
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Etymology
editThe specific name, victoriae, refers to the Victoria River (Northern Territory).[5]
Taxonomy
editThe species E. victiriae has a disrupted nomenclatural history. For many years it appeared in the literature as Emydura australis (Gray 1841: 445)[6] however in 1983 this name was synonymised with Emydura macquarii, incorrectly according to Iverson et al. 2001.[7] Since this time the species has been known as Emydura victoriae this name too has nomenclatural issues[7] and it is possible the names may eventually be reversed again.
Synonymy
edit- Hydraspis victoriae Gray 1842:55
- Chelymys victoriae Gray 1872:21
- Chelymys victoriae Baur 1888:419
- Chelymys victoriae Baur 1889
- Emydura victoriae Worrell 1964:17
- Tropicochelymys victoriae — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 9
- Emydura victoriae King & Burke 1989
- Emydura victoriae Georges 1996
- Emydura victoria Cann, 1997: 28 (ex errore)
- Emydura victoriae Cogger 2000: 199
- Emydura victoriae Georges & Thomson 2010
- Emydura victoriae Kehlmaier et al. 2019
- Emydura victoriae TTWG 2021
References
edit- ^ Gray, J.E. (1842). "Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians". pp 51-57. In: Gray, J.E. Zoological Miscellaney. London: Treuttel, Wurtz and Co.
- ^ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 334. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
- ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group; van Dijk PP; Iverson JB; Rhodin AGJ; Shaffer HB; Bour R (2014). "Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5 (7): 329–479. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
- ^ Georges A, Thomson S (2010). "Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2496: 1–37. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2496.1.1.
- ^ 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. (Emydura victoriae, p. 275).
- ^ Gray, John Edward (1841). "A catalogue of the species of reptiles and amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia, and some remarks on their geographical distribution". In: Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia. London: T. and W. Boone, Vol. 2. Appendix E, pp. 422–449.
- ^ a b Iverson, John B., Arthur Georges and Scott Thomson (2001). "The validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington". Journal of Herpetology 35: 361-368. download
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