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
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
