THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION
Covering Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards, Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia.

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COLUBRID SNAKES - Colubridae Homalopsidae Mud Snakes

PYTHON SNAKES - Pythonidae

ELAPID SNAKES - Elapidae Cobras Coral Snakes

SEA SNAKES - Hydrophiinae Laticaudidae Sea Kraits

FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

BLIND SNAKES - Worm Snakes - Typhlopidae Ramphotyphlops

TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines

DRAGON LIZARDS Agamas Agamidae

GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae

LEGLESS LIZARDS Pygopodidae Pygopods

MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae

SKINK LIZARDS Scincidae

CROCODILES Crocodylia Crocodilia Saltwater freshwater estuarine

NORTHERN LONG-NECKED TURTLE
and
SIEBENROCK'S SNAKE-NECKED TURTLE

Chelodina oblonga
(Previously known as Chelodina rugosa)

Kuchling's Long-necked Turtle Chelodina kuchlingi (no longer recognised as a valid species= synonymised with this species Chelodina oblonga)

THERE ARE 2 SUBSPECIES LISTED BELOW

Common Name

Scientific Name

Distribution

Northern Long-Necked Turtle

Chelodina oblonga oblonga (previously known as C. rugosa) (Also note C. oblonga was previously used for C. colliei )

NT, Qld, WA
(Excluding Torres Strait Islands)

Siebenrock’s Snake-Necked Turtle

Chelodina oblonga siebenrocki

Papua New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands, Qld


Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga
Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga from Fogg Dam, near Darwin, NT.

Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga
Approximate distribution of the the Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga and Siebenrock’s Snake-Necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga siebenrocki

Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga
Captive Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga

Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga
Captive Northern long-necked Turtle Chelodina oblonga oblonga

To see the page for the Oblong Turtle from South Western Australia (previously known as Chelodina oblonga, but now called Chelodina colliei ) PLEASE CLICK HERE


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FROM AROUND THE WORLD
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Freshwater Turtles of Australia by John Cann

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Updated May 3, 2019

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