The Australian gulf snapping turtle Elseya lavarackorum (Testudines: Chelidae) revisited—Is the late Pleistocene fossil species extant?

Disagreement exists on the taxonomic identity of the extant populations of the Australian Elseya referred to in 1992 as the gulf Elseya (= Elseya sp. aff. dentata [Nicholson]). The extant form has since 1997 been considered conspecific with the late Pleistocene fossil Elseya lavarackorum (White and...

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Main Authors: Scott A. Thomson, Natália R. Friol, Arthur White, Dion Wedd, Arthur Georges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft 2023-03-01
Series:Vertebrate Zoology
Online Access:https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/99495/download/pdf/