#1713 · 🦎 reptiles
Eastern Short-necked Turtle
🇳🇱 Macquarischildpad ·Emydura macquarii
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what is it?
The Murray River turtle ( Emydura macquarii ) is a wide-ranging species that occurs throughout many of the rivers of the eastern half of Australia. It is found primarily in the Murray River Basin and all its major tributaries, along with a number of coastal rivers up the New South Wales Coast. It is also found in the coastal Queensland Rivers and the Cooper Creek Ecosystem, along with Fraser Island.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,871 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1831 (195 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Eastern Short-necked Turtle
- Nederlands
- Macquarischildpad
- scientific name
- Emydura macquarii
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Testudines
- family
- Chelidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,871
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1831 by John Edward Gray
relatives· Chelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 99882, Wikidata Q1063950, GBIF 2442000, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.