Genus Elseya

Literature

• Bonaparte, C. L. J. L. 1836. Cheloniorum tabula analytica. Rome.
• Cann, J. 1978. Tortoises of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Publ., Sydney. 79 pp.
• Cann, J. 1997a. Georges short-neck turtle, Elseya georgesi sp. nov. Vic. Herp. Soc. Inc. "Monitor" 9(1): 18-23.
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• Frair, W. 1980. Serological survey of pleurodiran turtles. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 65B: 505-511.
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• Georges, A., and M. Adams. 1996. Electrophoretic delineation of species boundaries within the short-necked freshwater turtles of Australia (Testudines: Chelidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 118: 241-260.
• Goode, J. 1967. Freshwater tortoises of Australia and New Guinea (in the family Chelidae). Lansdowne Press, Melbourne. 154 pp.
• Gray, J. E. 1867. Description of a new Australian tortoise (Elseya latisternum). Ann. Mag. Natur. Hist. (London) (3)20: 43-45.
• Legler, J. M. 1981. The taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of Australian freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae). National Geographic Society Research Reports 13: 391-404.
• McDowell, S. B. 1983. The genus Emydura (Testudines: Chelidae) in New Guinea with notes on the penial morphology of Pleurodira. In: A. G. J. Rhodin and K. Miyata (eds.), Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology, pp. 169-189. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Wells, R. W., and C. R. Wellington. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian J. Herpetol. 1: 73-129.
• White, A. W., and M. Archer. 1994. Emydura lavarackorum, a new Pleistocene turtle (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from fluviatile deposits at Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 27(2): 159-167.