Elseya uberrima Temporal range:
Pliocene
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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: | Elseya |
Subgenus: | Pelocomastes |
Species: | E. uberrima
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Binomial name | |
Elseya uberrima (
De Vis, 1897)
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Elseya uberrima is a Pliocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. [1] All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000. [1]
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015) [3] resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.
Elseya uberrima Temporal range:
Pliocene
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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: | Elseya |
Subgenus: | Pelocomastes |
Species: | E. uberrima
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Binomial name | |
Elseya uberrima (
De Vis, 1897)
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Elseya uberrima is a Pliocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. [1] All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000. [1]
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015) [3] resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.