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Pritchard's snake-necked turtle
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Genus:	Chelodina
Subgenus:	Chelodina
Species:	C. pritchardi
Binomial name
Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994
Synonyms
Chelodina pritchardi Rhodin, 1994 Chelodina (Chelodina) pritchardi — TTWG, 2014

Pritchard's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina pritchardi) is a species of turtles in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to a restricted area of Central Province, Papua New Guinea.

Etymology

Both the specific name, pritchardi, and the common name, Pritchard's snake-necked turtle, are in honour of British herpetologist Peter Pritchard.

References

1. Rhodin, A.G.J.; Georges, A. (2020). "Chelodina pritchardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T4609A3004755. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T4609A3004755.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Rhodin, Anders G. J. (1994). "Chelid turtles of the Australian archipelago: I. A new species of Chelodina from southeastern Papua New Guinea". Breviora (497): 1-36. (Chelodina pritchardi, new species).
3. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 326. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895. ISSN 1864-5755.
4. "Chelodina pritchardi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
5. Turtle Taxonomy Working Group . 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., 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 7:1–292. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017.
6. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina pritchardi, pp. 211-212).

External links

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Chelodina pritchardi (errata version published in 2016)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.

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