Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Shaw,G. The Zoology of New Holland. London, 33 pp. (1794).


























































Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Chelidae
- genus
- Chelodina
- species
- Chelodina longicollis
materials_examined
Holotype: BMNH 1947.3. 5.87 (formerly 1851.4.24. 27); see annotation for C. sulcifera
materials_examined
Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.5.87 (formerly 1851.4.24. 27; Cogger et al. 1983: 61); illustrated in the original description, reproduced in Cann (1998: 54); photographed in Goode (1967: 29), Cann (1998: 54), and Cann & Sadlier (2017: 20).
materials_examined
Holotype: Not designated; BMNH 1947.3.5.86 presumed to be the holotype by Cogger et al. (1983: 61) since it was the specimen Shaw (1802: 62) used to redescribe the species; photographed in Cann (1998: 53) and Cann & Sadlier (2017: 18). Presumed holotype sampled genetically by Kehlmaier et al. (2019).
Name
- Synonyms
- Chelodina novae-hollandiae Duméril & Bibron
- Chelodina sulcata Gray, 1856
- Chelodina sulcifera Gray, 1855
- Emys longicollis
- Testudo longicollis Shaw, 1794
- Homonyms
- Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794)
- Common names
- Common Snake-necked Turtle in English
- Common Snake-necked Turtle in English
- Eastern Snake-necked Turtle in English
- Eastern snake-necked turtle in English
- Glattrücken-Schlangenhalsschildkröte in German
Bibliographic References
- Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363.
- 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.
- Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.