Chelodina kuchlingi

Chelodina kuchlingi
Pengelasan saintifik
Alam:	Haiwan
Filum:	Kordata
Subfilum:	Vertebrata
Kelas:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Keluarga:	Chelidae
Subkeluarga:	Chelodininae
Genus:	Chelodina
Subgenus:	Macrochelodina
Spesies:	C. (M.) kuchlingi
Nama binomial
	Chelodina kuchlingi; Cann, 1997

Chelodina (Macrochelodina) kuchlingi, juga dikenali sebagai Kura-kura Kuchling, ialah spesies kura-kura dari keluarga Chelidae. Spesies ini mendiami kawasan di Australia.

Etimologi sunting

Nama spesies, kuchlingi, adalah penghormatan kepada pakar Herpetologi, Gerald Kuchling.^[2]

Taksonomi sunting

C. kuchlingi dahulunya dianggap spesies yang sama dengan Chelodina oblonga, walau bagaimanapun, kini spesies ini telah dikaji semula^[3] dan dipercayai berasal dari daerah Utara Kimberley di barat Australia.

Biology sunting

Sedikit informasi yang diketahui mengenai C. kuchlingi, dan pelbagai kajian masih dilakukan terhadapnya.

Rujukan sunting

^ Cann, John. 1997d. Kuchling’s turtle. Monitor, Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society 9 (1): 32, 41–44.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina kuchlingi, p. 147).
^ Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.]. 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.

[cann1997d-1] Cann, John. 1997d. Kuchling’s turtle. Monitor, Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society 9 (1): 32, 41–44.

[2] Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chelodina kuchlingi, p. 147).

[ttwg-3] Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B., and Bour, R.]. 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Iverson, J.B., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.

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