Parker's snake-necked turtle (''Chelodina parkeri'') is a
species
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of
turtle
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in the
family
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Chelidae
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.
Taxonomy and etymology
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specific name Specific name may refer to:
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''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. . (''Chelodina parkeri'', p. 200).] The species is the type species for the recently described subgenus ''Chelydera''
[Shea, 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]
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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)]
"Freshwater turtles of the TransFly region of Papua New Guinea – notes on diversity, distribution, reproduction, harvest and trade"
''Wildlife Research'' 33 (5): 373.
Geographic range
''Chelodina parkeri'' is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group hodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP (2017)]
"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. .
References
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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Turtles of New Guinea
Chelydera
Reptiles described in 1976
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea