Austro-American Side-necked Turtles
Chelidae
The Chelidae are one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira and are commonly called the Austro-South American side-neck turtles. The family is distributed in Australia, New Guinea, parts of Indonesia, and throughout most of South America. It is a large family of turtles with a significant fossil history dating back to the Cretaceous. The family is entirely Gondwanan in origin, with no members found outside Gondwana, either in the present day or as...
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 66 known species
Australasian Side-necked Turtles
subfamilyChelodininae
South American Side-necked Turtles
subfamilyChelinae
South American Snake-necked Turtles
subfamilyHydromedusinae
Pseudemydurinae
subfamilyPseudemydurinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39588.