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Elseya albagula, commonly known as the white-throated snapping turtle, is one of the largest species of chelid turtles in the world, growing to about 45 cm (18 in) carapace length. [ 1 ] The species is endemic to south-eastern Queensland , Australia , in the Burnett , Mary , and Fitzroy River drainages.
Elseya is a genus of large side-necked turtles, commonly known as Australian snapping turtles, in the family Chelidae. Species in the genus Elseya are found in river systems in northern and northeastern Australia and throughout the river systems of New Guinea . [ 6 ]
The common snapping turtle, as its name implies, is the most widespread. [4] The common snapping turtle is noted for its combative disposition when out of the water with its powerful beak-like jaws, and highly mobile head and neck (hence the specific epithet serpentina, meaning "snake-like"). In water, it is likely to flee and hide underwater ...
Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are ...
A massive snapping turtle lounging in the Chicago River, dubbed Chonkosaurus, has won hearts on the internet.
Alligator snapping turtle; Common snapping turtle; Mud turtles. Eastern mud turtle; ... Argentine black and white tegu - introduced [10] Gekkota. Reef gecko;
White-lipped mud turtle – Kinosternon leucostomum Duméril and Bibron, 1851 [VU] Scorpion mud turtle – Kinosternon scorpioides (Linnaeus, 1766) Narrow-bridged musk turtle – Claudius angustatus Cope, 1865; Giant musk turtle – Staurotypus salvinii Gray, 1864; Mexican musk turtle – Staurotypus triporcatus (Wiegmann, 1828)
Elseya branderhorsti, also known commonly as Branderhorst's turtle and Branderhorst's snapping turtle, is a species of freshwater turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to southern New Guinea, in West Papua Indonesia and Western Province of Papua New Guinea .