Species profile—Elseya dentata (northern snapping turtle)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Chelidae (side-necked turtles) → Elseya dentata (northern snapping turtle)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Chelidae (side-necked turtles)
- Scientific name
- Elseya dentata (Gray, 1863)
- Common name
- northern snapping turtle
- WildNet taxon ID
- 53
- Synonym(s)
- Chelymys dentata
Elseya intermedia
Elseya stirlingi
Chelymys elseya - Alternate name(s)
- Johnstone River snapping turtle
Victoria River snapper - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Exotic
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=53.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
