Namoi River snapping turtle

Namoi River snapping turtle
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Subfamily:	Chelodininae
Genus:	Myuchelys
Species:	M. bellii
Binomial name
	Myuchelys bellii; (Gray, 1844)
Synonyms
	Phrynops bellii Gray, 1844; Hydraspis bellii — Gray, 1855; Elseya bellii — Cann, 1998; Wollumbinia bellii — Wells, 2007; Myuchelys bellii ; — Thomson & Georges, 2009;

The Namoi River snapping turtle (Myuchelys bellii), also commonly known as Bell's turtle, Namoi River elseya, or Bell's saw-shelled turtle, is a species of turtle in the Chelidae family.^[1]^[2]^[6] It is endemic to New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, bellii, and some of the common names, are in honor of English zoologist Thomas Bell.^[7]

M. bellii occurs in the upper reaches of the Namoi, Gwydir, Macdonald, and Severn Rivers in northern New South Wales, Australia.^[2]^[4]^[8]

^ ^a ^b ^c Rhodin 2011, p. 000.213.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Elseya bellii (Bell's turtle, Bell's snapping surtle, Namoi River snapping turtle)". IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
^ Gray, John Edward. 1844. Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). viii + 80 pp. (Phrynops bellii, pp. 41-42).
^ ^a ^b Fritz 2007, p. 328.
^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ "Approved Conservation Advice for Elseya belli (Bell's turtle)" (PDF). 26 March 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Elseya bellii, p. 22).
^ Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2003, ISBN 0-7313-6673-5.