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Carettochelys insculpta Ramsay, 1886

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Ramsay, E. P. On a new genus and species of fresh water tortoise from the Fly River, New Guinea.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Testudines
family
Carettochelyidae
genus
Carettochelys
species
Carettochelys insculpta

Name

Synonyms
Carettochelys insculpta canni Wells, 2002
Homonyms
Carettochelys insculpta Ramsay, 1886
Common names
Fly River Turtle in English
Pig-Nosed Turtle in English
Pig-nosed Turtle in English
Pignose turtle in English
Pitted-Shelled Turtle in English
Warrajan in English
pitted-shelled turtle in language.
Pig-nosed Turtle in English
Fly River Turtle in English
Kura-kura Moncong Babi in Indonesian
New Guinea Plateless Turtle in English
Pig-nose Turtle in English
Piku in language.
Pitted-shell Turtle in English
pig-nosed turtle in English
pitted-shelled turtle in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363.
  2. Ramsay, E. P. (1886). On a new genus and species of fresh water tortoise from the Fly River, New Guinea. <em>Proc. Linn. Soc., New South Wales.</em> (2) 1 (Part 1): 158-162.
  3. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479.
  4. Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
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