Pleurodira

This product was added biology to improve the basis of formal and / or substantive deficiencies in quality assurance. This is done to bring the quality of biology articles to an acceptable level. Please help to improve this article! Products are not significantly improved, may optionally be deleted.

Read also the more detailed information in the minimum requirements in biology articles.

Chelodina longicollis

The neck turner turtles ( Pleurodira ) lay your head pulled into a horizontal S-shaped movement laterally under the tank. They represent the subordination of the turtles, which is younger in comparison to the neck Berger turtles because they formed only in the Cretaceous.

For them, the cervical vertebrae have strong spine and side extensions for the approach of the neck muscles. Your pelvis is fused with the tanks.

Any neck turner turtles live in freshwater areas in the southern hemisphere, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Guinea and South America.

Families

• Snake neck turtles ( Chelidae )
• Pelomedusenschildkröten ( Pelomedusidae )
• Podocnemididae