Also known as the Eastern Long-necked Turtle.  Its neck is at least as long as its shell, which grows to about 25cm long.

Aquatic insects, tadpoles, molluscs and small fish.

The female buries up to ten eggs in the bank of a stream or swamp in early summer.  The eggs hatch after four to five months as young turtles and are fully independent after hatching.

Swamps, billabongs and slow-moving rivers of eastern and south-eastern mainland Australia.