Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 245

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968137

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF6E-B882-FF6B-42217D120827

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Plazi

scientific name

Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

Common Snapping Turtle

Singapore records.

Chelydra serpentina —T.H. Ng & K.K.P. Lim, 2010: 119 (MacRitchie Reservoir).—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010: 35.—A.- L. Chang & T. Koh, 2011: 205.

Chelydra sp. —Kwan et al., 2015: 97–98 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).

Remarks. Chelydra serpentina is native to southeastern Canada and eastern United States (TTWG 2021). One individual was photographed at MR on 12 February 2009 (B.L. Chong pers. comm.) and March 2009 (Ng & Lim 2010), and a carcass of one was found at SBWR in 2014 (Kwan et al. 2015).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve : ZRC.2.7304 (30-Jul-2014) .

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Genus Macrochelys Gray 1856 (1 species)

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Chelydridae

Genus

Chelydra

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