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The Australian Saw Shelled Turtles, Myuchelys, are a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. They inhabit the headwaters and tributaries of rivers within their range and this led to the name Myuchelys, which is formed from the Aboriginal words Myuna meaning high water and chelys meaning turtle. They have a short neck and the intergular scute completely separates the gular scutes. They have no alveolar ridge separating them from the Snapping Turtles of the genus Elseya.

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  • Myuchelys
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  • The Australian Saw Shelled Turtles, Myuchelys, are a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. They inhabit the headwaters and tributaries of rivers within their range and this led to the name Myuchelys, which is formed from the Aboriginal words Myuna meaning high water and chelys meaning turtle. They have a short neck and the intergular scute completely separates the gular scutes. They have no alveolar ridge separating them from the Snapping Turtles of the genus Elseya.
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  • Chelodina longicollis
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  • NSW, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
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Kingdom
  • Animalia
Habitat
  • Freshwater
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  • 3(xsd:integer)
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  • IUCN 3.1
Title
  • Australian Saw-shelled Turtles
Genus
  • Myuchelys
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  • 3.15576E9
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  • Omnivore
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  • Chordata
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  • 25.0
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  • The Australian Saw Shelled Turtles, Myuchelys, are a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. They inhabit the headwaters and tributaries of rivers within their range and this led to the name Myuchelys, which is formed from the Aboriginal words Myuna meaning high water and chelys meaning turtle. They have a short neck and the intergular scute completely separates the gular scutes. They have no alveolar ridge separating them from the Snapping Turtles of the genus Elseya. The genus currently contains five rather cryptic small species of freshwater turtles, endemic to eastern and northern Australia and southern New Guinea, Irian Jaya. * The Saw-Shelled Turtle, Myuchelys latisternum Gray, 1867 * Bellinger River Snapping Turtle, Myuchelys georgesi Cann, 1997 * Manning River Snapping Turtle, Myuchelys purvisi Wells & Wellington, 1985 * Namoi River Snapping Turtle, Myuchelys belli Gray, 1844 * New Guinea Snapping Turtle, Myuchelys novaeguineae Meyer, 1874. This taxa has been moved to Myuchelys on the basis of DNA analysis by Georges & Thomson, 2010. The species Elseya schultzei Vogt, 1911 was considered a subspecies of Myuchelys novaeguineae by Artner (2008) and is followed here for the time being.
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