Macquarie Turtle -- Emydura macquarii macquarii
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Dr. Michael Thompson of the Sydney
University for sending me the reprints of his papers on Emydura macquarii
macquarii. I also thank Dr. Roger Bour of the Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris for providing the type (MNHN.9409) photographs, Hynek Prokop for supplying the photographs # 4 and 5 and Craig Latta for supplying the photographs # 6 and 7.
Right photograph [3]: Holotype E. m. macquarii (M. N. H. P. 9409
from Australia) - lateral view
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Bottom photographs [6;7]: Emydura macquarii macquarii - female and male
