Chelodina kuchlingi Cann, 1997:41
Kuchling's long-necked turtle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing or Extinct (Low & Booth, 2023)
Last record: 1974 (Kuchling, 2020)
Distribution & Habitat
Parry Creek, lower Ord River floodplain, eastern Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: WAM 29411 (Iverson, 2022:4)
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:
Cann, John. (1998). Australian Freshwater Turtles. Singapore: Beaumont Publications. 292 pp.
Cann, John and Sadlier, R. (2017). Freshwater Turtles of Australia. Rodeo, New Mexico: ECO Wear and Publishing. 448 pp.
Ellis, R. J. and Georges, A. (2015). An annotated type catalogue of the turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 30(1): 52-60. https://doi.org/10.18195/issn.0312-3162.30(1).2015.052-060
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
Iverson, John B. (2022). A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines). Megataxa 7(1): 1-85. https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.7.1.1
Kehlmaier, C., Zhang, X., Georges, A., Campbell, P. D., Thomson, S. and Fritz, U. (2019). Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports 9(5841): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42310-x
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.