- Origin: Papua New Guinea, Australia
- Class: Reptiles
- Order: Testudines
- Suborder: Pleurodira
- Family: Chelidae
This turtle prefers warm, humid areas of dense forest, and lives in marshes, lakes and coastal lagoons; it is very shy and flees at the slightest warning. Very colourful, with yellow stripes on its head and neck, it has a plastron that varies from pink to red. Like most freshwater aquatic turtles, it has webbed feet and claws. It feeds mainly on molluscs, insects, crustaceans, fish and carrion. Its main predator is the marsh crocodile.
Oviparous, the female lays 7 to 14 eggs around two or three times a year, incubating for 60 to 80 days. The young are independent at birth.