elseya, caelatus, species, australasian, snapping, turtle, that, endemic, guinea, specific, epithet, caelatus, carved, refers, strongly, sculpted, texture, carapace, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, chordataclass, reptiliaord. Elseya caelatus is a species of Australasian snapping turtle that is endemic to New Guinea The specific epithet caelatus carved refers to the strongly sculpted texture of the carapace 1 Elseya caelatusScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass ReptiliaOrder TestudinesSuborder PleurodiraFamily ChelidaeGenus ElseyaSubgenus HanwarachelysSpecies E caelatusBinomial nameElseya caelatusJoseph Ouni amp McCord 2019Subspecies editE c caelatus Joseph Ouni amp McCord 2019 E c ayamaru Joseph Ouni amp McCord 2019Distribution editThe species occurs in Western New Guinea including the Bird s Head Peninsula as well as the nearby islands of Salawati and Waigeo The type locality for the nominate subspecies is Salawati that for E c ayamaru is the Ayamaru Lakes 1 References edit a b Elseya caelatus JOSEPH OUNI amp MCCORD 2019 Reptile Database Peter Uetz and Jakob Hallermann Retrieved 15 June 2021 nbsp This article about a turtle is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elseya caelatus amp oldid 1030271626, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
