Talk:Q2697599
Autodescription — Chelodina oblonga (Q2697599)
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Nomenclature for this species[edit]
You will need to be extremely careful what names you attribute to this species it has a very complicated nomenclatural history. To assist I am adding here the explanatory text from van Dijk et al. 2014, which I wrote, to assist. I appreciate that comments are probably unusual here but you will get very mixed up quickly if you dont have the information on this one.
43. Chelodina oblonga (formerly C. rugosa): Thomson (2000) demonstrated that the holotype of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 is actually a specimen of what had over the last ca. 40 years been referred to as Chelodina rugosa Ogilby 1890 from northern Australia. The ICZN was petitioned (Thomson 2006, 2007) to conserve current usage of the name C. rugosa for the Northern Snake-necked Turtle and to apply the next available name, Chelodina colliei Gray 1856a, to the Southwestern Snake-necked Turtle, instead of the commonly and erroneously used name C. oblonga. We previously discussed this ICZN case in our second checklist (Rhodin et al. 2008). Recently, in their Opinion 2315, the ICZN (2013a) declined to support the petition to give precedence to the younger, recently used name C. rugosa over the older name C. oblonga for the Northern Snake-necked Turtle. Although the latter species has been known as C. rugosa since 1974 and was listed as such in previous editions of this checklist, we now follow the ruling of the ICZN and use the name Chelodina (Macrochelodina) oblonga Gray 1841 for the Northern Snake-necked Turtle, although the name Chelodina (Macrochelodina) rugosa Ogilby 1890 remains an available name in the synonymy of C. oblonga. The decision by the ICZN has also been followed by Kennett et al. (2014) in their recently published account on the Northern Snake-necked Turtle in this CBFTT monograph series. download pdf from page 449. If anyone is unsure send me a message. Cheers Faendalimas (talk) 02:10, 1 May 2015 (UTC)