Chelodina canni

Cann's snake-necked turtle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Chelodina
Subgenus: Chelodina
Species:
C. canni
Binomial name
Chelodina canni
McCord & Thomson, 2002[1]
Distribution of C. canni in Australia.
Synonyms[2]
  • Chelodina rankini Wells and Wellington 1985: 8 (nomen nudum)
  • Chelodina canni McCord and Thomson 2002: 256[1]
  • Chelodina rankini Wells 2007a: 2 (07:86, 10:43) (nomen nudum)

Chelodina canni, also known commonly as Cann's snake-necked turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to Australia, where it is found in the northern and northeastern parts of the continent.[1] It has a narrow zone of hybridization with its related species the eastern snake-necked turtle, C. longicollis. For many years C. canni was assumed to be the same species as C. novaeguineae from New Guinea. However, in 2002 it was shown that these two species differ both morphologically and genetically, and therefore C. canni was separated and described as a unique species.

  1. ^ a b c McCord W, Thomson S (2002). "A new species of Chelodina (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from Northern Australia". Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 255-267.
  2. ^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk PP, Iverson JB, Rhodin AGJ, Shaffer HB, Bour R] (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin AGJ, Pritchard PCH, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Iverson JB, Mittermeier RA (Editors). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.