Parker's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina parkeri) is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae.
Etymology The specific name, parkeri, is in honor of Australian naturalist Fred Parker (born 1941).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Chelodina parkeri, p. 200).
Taxonomy Chelodina parkeri is the type species for the recently described subgenus Chelydera.Shea, G.; Thomson, S.; Georges, A. (2020). "The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed". Zootaxa 4779 (3): 419–437. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9. PDF
Local name Parker's snake-necked turtle is called kunkakta in the Suki and Arammba languages of southwestern Papua New Guinea.Georges, Arthur; Guarino, Fiorenzo; Bito, Biatus (2006). "Freshwater turtles of the TransFly region of Papua New Guinea – notes on diversity, distribution, reproduction, harvest and trade". Wildlife Research 33 (5): 373.
Geographic range Chelodina parkeri is endemic to the Fly River area of Western Province, Papua New Guinea.Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, Bour R, Fritz U, Georges A, Shaffer HB, van Dijk PP] (2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status" (8th Edition). In: Rhodin AGJ, Iverson JB, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Pritchard PCH, Mittermeier RA (editors) (2017). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. .
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Further reading
Rhodin AGJ, Mittermeier RA (1976). "Chelodina parkeri, A New Species of Chelid Turtle from New Guinea, with a Discussion of Chelodina siebenrocki Werner, 1901". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147 (11): 465–488. (Chelodina parkeri, new species, pp. 477–486 + Figures 10, 13–24).