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The White Throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) is one of the largest species of Chelid Turtles in the world growing to approximately 45 cm carapace length. The species is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia found in the Burnett, Mary and Fitzroy River Drainages. This species is entirely aquatic, rarely coming ashore and is chiefly herbivorous feeding on the fruits and buds of riparian vegetation, algae's and large aquatic plants.

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rdf:type	Herp
rdfs:label	White Throated Snapping Turtle
rdfs:comment	The White Throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) is one of the largest species of Chelid Turtles in the world growing to approximately 45 cm carapace length. The species is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia found in the Burnett, Mary and Fitzroy River Drainages. This species is entirely aquatic, rarely coming ashore and is chiefly herbivorous feeding on the fruits and buds of riparian vegetation, algae's and large aquatic plants.
biname	Elseya albagula
distrib	Queensland, Australia
dcterms:subject	Chelidae
Status	EN
Kingdom	Animalia
Habitat	Freshwater
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Weight	5(xsd:integer)
Authority	Thomson et al. 2006
Species	E. albagula
iucn	IUCN 3.1
Title	White Throated Snapping Turtle
Genus	Elseya
Class	Reptile
Suborder	Pleurodira
Subfamily	Chelodininae
Family	Chelidae
Order	Testudines
lspan	Unknown
Diet	Omnivore
Phylum	Chordata
Size	65.0
abstract	The White Throated Snapping Turtle (Elseya albagula) is one of the largest species of Chelid Turtles in the world growing to approximately 45 cm carapace length. The species is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia found in the Burnett, Mary and Fitzroy River Drainages. This species is entirely aquatic, rarely coming ashore and is chiefly herbivorous feeding on the fruits and buds of riparian vegetation, algae's and large aquatic plants. It was first proposed as a species by John Goode in the 1960s. it was finally described in 2006. The species is named from the Latin alba = white and gular = throat which is a reference to the white blotching present on the throats of adult females in the species. The type locality for the species is the Burnett River in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, however it is also found in the Mary and Fitzroy River drainage's to the north of the Burnett. Some have argued for each of these rivers to represent different species, however DNA, morphological and morphometric analysis does not support this conclusion.

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