''Elseya uberrima'' is a

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During his time at the

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Charles Walter De Vis Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829 – 30 April 1915)
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described a number of fossil turtles from the

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region of

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.Thomson SA. 2000. A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897. ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'' 45 (2): 593–598. (Brisbane). All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000. To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows: *''Elseya uberrima'' (De Vis, 1897De Vis CW. 1897. The extinct freshwater turtles of Queensland. ''Annals of the Queensland Museum'' 3: 3–7.) **''Chelymys uberrima'' De Vis, 1897: 3 **''Chelymys antiqua'' De Vis 1897: 4 **''Chelymys arata'' De Vis 1897: 5 **''Pelocomastes ampla'' De Vis 1897: 6–7 This synonymy has made the

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name ''Pelocomastes'' a junior synonym of '' Elseya'' and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015)Thomson, S., Amepou, Y., Anamiato, J. & Georges, A. 2015. A new species and subgenus of ''Elseya'' (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. ''Zootaxa'' 4006(1):59–82
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to represent the

clade of the '' Elseya''. Therefore, ''Elseya'' (''Pelocomastes'') ''uberrima'' is the type species for this subgenus. frame, center, middle, alt=A) A) Lectotype of ''Elseya uberrima''; B) lectotype of ''Elseya arata''; C-D) dorsal and ventral views of the lectotype of ''Pelocomastes ampla''.

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