Species profile—Chelodina expansa (broad-shelled river turtle)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Chelidae (side-necked turtles) → Chelodina expansa (broad-shelled river turtle)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Chelidae (side-necked turtles)
- Scientific name
- Chelodina expansa (Gray, 1857)
- Common name
- broad-shelled river turtle
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. 1857. Description of a new species of Chelodina from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1856: 369-371.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 62
- Synonym(s)
- Macrochelodina expansa
Chelodina oblonga expansa - Alternate name(s)
- broad-shelled turtle
broad-shelled snake-necked turtle - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
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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=62.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
