Chelodina kuchlingi Cann, 1997
Kuchling's long-necked turtle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing or extinct (Low & Booth, 2023)
Last record: 1974 (Kuchling, 2020)
Distribution
Parry Creek, lower Ord River floodplain, eastern Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cann, John. (1997). Kuchlings long-neck turtle, Chelodina kuchlingi sp. nov. Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society 9(1): 41-44.
Other references:
Garnett, Stephen T., Hayward-Brown, Brittany K. et al. (2022). Australia's most imperilled vertebrates. Biological Conservation 270: 109561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109561
Kuchling, G. (2020). Revised Type Locality and Distribution of the Data Deficient Chelodina kuchlingi and a Review of its Status as a Distinct Species. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 19(1): 48-57. https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1392.1
Low, Tim and Booth, Carol. (2023). GONE: Australian animals extinct since the 1960s. Invasive Species Council Inc.