Species of turtle
Chelodina gunaleni commonly as Gunalen's long-necked turtle and Gunalen's snake-necked turtle , is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae . The species is endemic to the lowlands of west-central West Papua, Indonesia , south of the central ranges.[ 2]
Etymology
The specific name , gunaleni , is in honor of Indonesian zoologist Danny Gunalen .[ 3]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of C. gunaleni are freshwater rivers and freshwater swamps.[ 4]
Reproduction
Like all turtles, C. gunaleni is oviparous .[ 4]
References
^ McCord, W.P. ; Joseph-Ouni, M. (2007). "A New Species of Chelodina (Testudines: Chelidae) from southwestern New Guinea (Papua, Indonesia)". Reptilia (GB) (52): 47-52. (Chelodina gunaleni , new species).^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [ Rhodin, A.G.J. ; Iverson, J.B. ; Bour, R. ; Fritz, U. ; Georges, A. , Shaffer, H.B. ; van Dijk, P.P. ]. (2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)" . In: Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; van Dijk, P.P.; Saumure, R.A. ; Buhlmann, K.A. ; Pritchard, P.C.H. ; 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 7 : 1–292. doi :10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017 .^ Beolens, Bo ; Watkins, Michael ; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Gunalen's Long-necked Turtle Chelodina gunaleni , p. 112).^ a b Species Chelodina gunaleni The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
Valverde, Javier (2010). "Schlangenhalsschildkröten ". Reptilia (Münster) 15 (85): 16–23. [erratum in (86): 10]. (in German).
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