Chelydra serpentina
Description
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) — 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)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LKCNHM, NHMUK , ZRC
- Event date
- 2014-07-30
- Family
- Chelydridae
- Genus
- Chelydra
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Testudines
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- serpentina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-07-30
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Figueroa, Low & Lim, 2023