| Common
Name |
Scientific
Name |
| Brisbane
Short-Necked Turtle |
Emydura
signata |
| Introduction |
 |
| This
turtle has a pale yellowish stripe along the lower jaw to the side
of the neck. When extended, the head and neck are much shorter than
the length of the shell, which grows to about 20cm long. Each
of the webbed forelimbs has five claws. |
| Food |
| Tadpoles,
molluscs, small fishes, aquatic invertebrates and water plants. |
| Breeding |
| Ten
elongated, brittle-shelled eggs are laid in an excavation in the
bank of a creek or lagoon in late September and early October. |
| Habitat |
|
| Found
in coastal waterways of northern New South Wales and far
south-eastern Queensland. |
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