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    Species Accepted

    Chelodina expansa Gray, 1857

    Broad-shelled Snake-necked Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Chelodina

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Broad-shelled Snake-necked Turtle English
      Broad-shelled Turtle English
      Giant Snake-necked Turtle English
      Riesen-Schlangenhalsschildkröte German
      dlouhokrčka široká Czech
      óriás kígyónyakúteknős Hungarian
      Гигантская змеиношейная черепаха Russian
      コウヒロナガクビガメ Japanese
      寬甲長頸龜 Chinese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      30 results
      Georges, A., Adams, M., & McCord, W. (2002). Electrophoretic delineation of species boundaries within the genus Chelodina (Testudines: Chelidae) of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (4): 401-422.
      Gray, J. E. (1857). Description of a new species of Chelodina from Australia. Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1856: 369-371.
      Kehlmaier, C., Fritz, U., & Kuchling, G. (2025). The taxonomic quagmire of northern Australian snake-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae): Chelodina kuchlingi—Extinct or hiding in plain sight? Vertebrate Zoology, 75, 127-145.
      Winkler, J. D. (2006). Testing phylogenetic implications of eggshell characters in side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira). Zoology 109: 127-136.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Mazzoleni, Sofia; Barbora Augstenová, Lorenzo Clemente, Markus Auer, Uwe Fritz, Peter Praschag, Tomáš Protiva, Petr Velenský, Lukáš Kratochvíl & Michail Rovatsos. (2020). Sex is determined by XX/XY sex chromosomes in Australasian side-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae). Sci Rep 10: 4276.
      TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. (2025). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575.
      Goode, J. (1968). Morphological variations in Victorian tortoises with special reference to the intermediate form of Chelodina expansa. Victorian Naturalist 85: 263-267.
      Booth, D. T. (1998). Egg Size, Clutch Size, and Reproductive Effort of the Australian Broad-shelled River Turtle, Chelodina expansa. Journal of Herpetology 32 (4): 592-596.
      Cogger, H. G. (2000). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 Pp.

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