SNAPPING GULF TURTLE

Photographed at Lawn Hill National Park, Northern Territory, October 2018

119               SNAPPING GULF TURTLE                       Elseya oneiros

AUSTRALIAN TURTLES             T8 

Not very well known and endangered. Originally described from fossils and then rediscovered as a living species. Found in Nicholson River drainage of Queensland to western Gulf of Carpentaria. 

This turtle has recently been renamed as it was discovered it was not the turtle everyone assumed it was. While it was previously called Elseya lavarackorum it is naw known as Elseya oneiros. Elseya lavarackorum are now thought extinct.