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Last update: 4 April, 2004

A monotypic genus of Australian chelid turtles.

Rheodytes Legler & Cann, 1980
(Type = Rheodytes leukops Legler & Cann, 1980)
Rheodytes leukops Legler & Cann, 1980

Distribution: Australia.

Literature
Bull, J.J. & J.M. Legler. 1980. Karyotypes of sidenecked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira). Canadian J. Zool., 58: 828-841.
Cann, J. 1978. Tortoises of Australia. Angus and Robertson, Publ., Sydney, 79 pp.
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.
Cogger, H.G. 1983. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. AH & AW Reed Pty Ltd, 660 pp.
Ernst, C.H. & R.W. Barbour. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 314 pp.
Iverson, J.B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Richmond, IN: Privately printed, 363 pp.
Legler, J.M. & J. Cann. 1980. A new genus and species of chelid turtle from Queensland, Australia. Los Angeles Co. Mus. Nat. Sci., Contrib. Sci., 324: 1-18.
Priest, T.E. 1997. Bimodal respiration and dive behaviour of the Fitzroy River turtle, Rheodytes leukops. Unpubl. honors thesis, Univ. Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Priest, T.E. & C.E. Franklin. 2002. Effect of Water Temperature and Oxygen Levels on the Diving Behavior of Two Freshwater Turtles: Rheodytes leukops and Emydura macquarii. J. Herpetol., 36(4): 555-561.