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Elseya branderhorsti (New GuineaSnapping Turtle; New Guinea snapping turtle)

Synonyms: Emydura branderhorsti

Wikipedia Abstract

Elseya branderhorsti (BranderhorstĀ“s Snapping Turtle) is a species of freshwater turtle from the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to West Papua Indonesia and Western Province of Papua New Guinea. Until recently it has been a confusing species due to its lost holotype and sympatry with another, undescribed, species. The species is currently listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN RedList in part due to its vulnerability to the Asian Turtle Trade.
View Wikipedia Record: Elseya branderhorsti

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Elseya branderhorsti

Ecoregions

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0