Chelodina gunaleni, commonly known as Gunalen's long-necked turtle and Gunalen's snake-necked turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Chelidae. The species is endemic to the lowlands of west-central West Papua, Indonesia, south of the central ranges.Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [ Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; Bour, R.; Fritz, U.; Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B.; van Dijk, P.P. ]. (2017). "Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)". In: Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; van Dijk, P.P.; Saumure, R.A.; Buhlmann, K.A.; Pritchard, P.C.H.; Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. .
Etymology The specific name, gunaleni, is in honor of Indonesian zoologist Danny Gunalen.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Gunalen's Long-necked Turtle Chelodina gunaleni, p. 112).
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of C. gunaleni are freshwater rivers and freshwater swamps. www.reptile-database.org.
Reproduction Like all turtles, C. gunaleni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Valverde, Javier (2010). "Schlangenhalsschildkröten ". Reptilia (Münster) 15 (85): 16–23. [erratum in (86): 10]. (in German).
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