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Chelodina mccordi mccordi Rhodin, 1994

Western Roti (Island) snake-necked turtle, McCord's snakeneck turtle

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct in the wild (Devi et al., 2021; Kayat & Saragih, 2021)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Roti Island

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. (2000). Chelodina mccordi (errata version published in 2016). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T4606A97495592. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T4606A11027770.en. Downloaded on 21 April 2018.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Devi, N. A. et al. (2021). Genetic diversity and species identity of the critically endangered Rote Island snake-necked turtle, Chelodina mccordi Rhodin, 1994. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 948: 012001. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/948/1/012001

Ginal, Philipp et al. (2023). Threatened turtles and tortoises (Testudines) in zoos: A ZIMS database analysis for improved One Plan Approach to Conservation actions. Salamandra 59(3): 262-274.

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Kayat (mononym) and Saragih, G. S. (2021). Reproductive biology of the Rote Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina mccordi (Rhodin, 1994) in Oelsonbai Captivity, Kupang. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 948: 012021. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/948/1/012021

Turtle Conservation Coalition [Stanford, C.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., van Dijk, P.P., Horne, B.D., Blanck, T., Goode, E.V., Hudson, R., Mittermeier, R.A., Currylow, A., Eisemberg, C., Frankel, M., Georges, A., Gibbons, P.M., Juvik, J.O., Kuchling, G., Luiselli, L., Shi, H., Singh, S., and Walde, A. (Eds.)]. (2018). Turtles in Trouble: Te World’s 25+ Most Endangered Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles—2018. Ojai, CA: IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, Turtle Conservancy, Turtle Survival Alliance, Turtle Conservation Fund, Chelonian Research Foundation, Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Global Wildlife Conservation, 80 pp.

 

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