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Last update: 4 April, 2004

A monotypic genus of Australian chelid turtles.

Pseudemydura Siebenrock, 1901
(Type = Pseudemydura umbrina Siebenrock, 1901)
Pseudemydura umbrina Siebenrock, 1901
Emydura inspectata Glauert, 1954
Distribution: Australia.
Literature
Australian Information Service. 1974. Nachzucht von Pseudemydura umbrina im Zoo von Perth. DATZ, 27(10): 359-360.
Australian Information Service. 1975. Pseudemydura umbrina, en sjælden australsk skildpadde. NHF, 18(7): 155-160.
Budde, H. 1985. Pseudemydura umbrina verdens sjældneste skildpadde på randen af udryddelse. NHF, 28(5): 140-146.
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Cann, J. & J.M. Legler. 1994. The Mary River Tortoise: A New Genus and Species of Short-Necked Chelid from Queensland, Australia (Testudines: Pleurodira). Chel. Conserv. Biol., 1(2): 81-96.
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Iverson, J.B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, IN: Privately printed, 363 pp.
Kuchling, G. 1993. Nesting of Pseudemydura umbrina (Testudines: Chelidae): The Other Way Round. Herpetologica, 49(4): 479-487.
Philippen, H.-D. 1997. Bemerkungen zur aktuellen Situation von Pseudemydura umbrina, der seltensten Schildkröte der Welt. Zusammenfassungen DGHT Jahrestagung 1997: 6-7.
Schmidt, D. 1993. Schildkröte vor dem Aussterben bewahrt. DATZ, 46(2): 75.
Siebenrock, F. 1901. Beschreibung einer neuen Schildkrötengattung aus der Familie Chelydidae von Australien: Pseudemydura. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 22: 248-250.
Spence, T., R. Fairfax & I. Loach. 1979. The western Australian swamp tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina. Int. Zoo. Yearb., 19: 58-60.