title: Elseya uberrima
text: # Elseya uberrima
  
  Elseya uberrima is a Pliocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.
  
  To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
  
  * Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897)
     * Chelymys uberrima De Vis, 1897: 3
     * Chelymys antiqua De Vis 1897: 4
     * Chelymys arata De Vis 1897: 5
     * Pelocomastes ampla De Vis 1897: 6–7
  
  This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015) resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.
  
  