Herptile Spotlight # 6: Pink Belly Short/Side Neck Turtle

Hello, my name is Papoe…this is my first post here

I am taking over the Herptile Spotlight section from now on!! … eh? What’s that sis? …ow, Kroten said she will never give this section to me, she said I am still lack of experience

Well, anyway I am here to share about my own species

My species is called Pink Belly Short Neck Turtle but some people also called me as Pink belly Side Neck Turtle because I don’t put my head inside my shell, I only bend it side-way. My scientific name is Emydura Schultzei (or Elseya Schultzei), NOT to be mistaken with my cousin Euchelymys Subglobosa or Red Belly Short Neck Turtle. My cousin is more famous than me.

Based on Zipcodezoo.com, here’s my scientific tree:

Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Bilateria
Branch: Deuterostomia
Infrakingdom: Chordonia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Reptilia
Subclass: Anapsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Chelinae
Genus: Emydura
Specific name: Schultzei

I am native to the tropical regions of Papua New Guinea and Australia, hence the name Papoe

Herptile Spotlight #5 : Diamondback Turtle

Yeaaa…it’s another edition of Herptile Spotlight. I like writing this series because I got to learn something before sharing it

In the past 2 Herptile Spotlight, I have shared about our not so cute cousins, they are Komodo and Crocodile. Now,it’s time to share about the cutest reptile  in the world…that is, of course, TURTLES!!!

Let me introduce you to the turtle Mommy wished to have once she has a bigger house. The Beautiful Diamondback Turtle

Photo belongs to Diamondbacks4Life

Isn’t she (assuming it’s a she)beautiful?

Herptile Spotlight 4: Buaya Muara (Crocodylus Porosus)

It’s been 3 months ago since my last Herptile Spotlight. Sorry for keeping this long to spotlight our other cute (or not so cute) relatives. Some are often found as pets and some could never be pet, like our last spotlight, Komodo Dragon. 

Today I want to introduce you to Crocodylus Porosus, or mostly known as Buaya Muara in Indonesian.

picture taken from Satwa Langka

I have searched a bit and found out that in English this buaya (crocodile) is called as Salt-water crocodile. They don’t actually live in the sea eventhough they are called salt-water crocodile, they live in the river and the mouth of river the leads to the sea. They can be found in ALMOST all Indonesian rivers, mostly in Kalimantan and Sumatra. But,they don’t live only in Indonesia. You can find them in this area:

Herptile Spotlight #3: Komodo Dragon

This month’s Herptile Spotlight is focusing on one of the most famous reptiles that exists ONLY in our country …. Our pride animal, the Komodo Dragon.

Komodo (Varanus komodoensis), is the largest lizard in the world (about 2-3 meters).  They live in the islands of komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Montang and Gili Dasami. In the province of Nusa Tenggara. You can see it in the map. We added blue arrow to let you know where we live (The map is borrowed from wikipedia-Indonesia).

Herptile Spotlight #2: The Schneider’s Gold Skink

Today, we have our first guest author….yaaiiii give a big applause to aunt Lara Inglis \(^^)/

Copyright belongs to Lara Inglis

She is going to introduce  us with The Schneider’s Gold Skink, cool name eh!

But…First, I want to introduce our kind guest author

Aunt Lara has A LOT of herptiles and very well-educated about her herptiles. Mommy learns a lot from her. We are expecting her to be our guest author for more than once….please be our regular guest author aunt Lara

You can check her amazing art of photography in her Deviantart Account. She is incredibly talented, mommy often jealous over her shots.

You can also get to know her better in her twitter account and her facebook account (go to her account by clicking on  these profile pictures of her below)

Without more delay, let’s let aunt Lara do the talking:

Herptile Spotlight #1: Tokay Gecko

We won’t be posting Wordless Wednesday for this Wednesday because the month is almost over.

This is the newest section of our blog. Inspired by mommy’s monthly post in her blog, Polychrome Interest. In here, we will share a bit information from other herptiles.

We think that sharing only about turtles is a bit unfair, so we discussed  it  and came to a decision to share 1 herptile per month.

What is herptile? It is a new term for amphibian and reptile.

The first one we want to share about our late cousin,Toga

Toga is a  Tokay Gecko,we Indonesian called it as Tokek.

Here’s a little information on Tokay gecko from wikipedia:

The Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko, ranging from northeast India and Bangladesh, throughout Southeast Asia, Philippines to Indonesia and western New Guinea. Its native habitat is rain-forest trees and cliffs, and it also frequently adapts to rural human habitations, roaming walls and ceilings at night in search of insect prey. Increasing urbanization is reducing its range. In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was introduced into Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Belize, and several Caribbean islands, where it can be considered an invasive species.