Species profile—Chelodina longicollis (eastern snake-necked turtle)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Chelidae (side-necked turtles) → Chelodina longicollis (eastern snake-necked turtle)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Chelidae (side-necked turtles)
- Scientific name
- Chelodina longicollis (Shaw, 1794)
- Common name
- eastern snake-necked turtle
- WildNet taxon ID
- 63
- Synonym(s)
- Testudo longicollis
Chelodina sulcata
Chelodina sulcifera
Chelodina novaehollandiae - Alternate name(s)
- eastern long-necked turtle
long-necked tortoise
snake-necked turtle
eastern snake-headed turtle
eastern snake-headed tortoise - 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=63
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
