Myuchelys belli

Myuchelys bellii juga dikenali sebagai Kura-kura Sentap Sungai Namoi, Kura-kura Bell, ialah spesies kura-kura dari keluarga Chelidae. Spesies ini berasal dari New South Wales, Australia.

Etimologi
Nama spesies, bellii, adalah sempena nama zoologis Inggeris, [[Thomas Bell.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Elseya bellii, p. 22).

Taburan geografi
M. bellii boleh dijumpai di Sungai Namoi, Sungai Gwydir, Sungai Macdonald (Bendemeer), dan Sungai Severn (New South Wales) yang terletak di utara New South Wales, Australia.New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service (2003). Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW. .

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut
Cann J (1998). Australian Freshwater Turtles. Singapore: Beaumont Publishing. 292 pp. .

Thomson S, Georges A (2009). "Myuchelys gen nov. — a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae)". Zootaxa 2053: 32-42.
Wells RW (2007). "Some taxonomic and nomenclatural considerations on the class Reptilia in Australia. A new genus of the family Chelidae from eastern Australia". Australian Biodiversity Record (3): 1-13.

Pautan luar

Bell's turtle  from the Government of Queensland

Category:Turtles of Australia