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Chelidae
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Chelidae is one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira, and are commonly called 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 a fossil.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTestudines
  4. OrderTestudines
  5. FamilyChelidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded136,029

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
107
Family
Chelidae
Collections
ANWC, UCMP
Recorded in
Unknown Or Invalid, Brazil, Uruguay, Guyana, Australia, Suriname

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pleurodira
Image
Chelus fimbriatus 2005.jpg
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Commons category
Chelidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Chelidae
topic's main category
Category:Chelidae
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Description
  • Shell morphology
  • Evolutionary history
  • Classification
  • Phylogeny
  • References
  • External links and further reading

Chelidae is one of three living families of the turtle suborder Pleurodira, and are commonly called 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 a fossil.

==Description==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chelidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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