[10] The specific name, colliei, is in honor of Scottish physician and naturalist Alexander Collie.

[11] This species has a very complicated taxonomic history, involving many uses of the available names and a number of mistakes in that usage.

Although that ruling required considerable effort over the ensuing 12 months to establish this nomenclature, subsequent research has reversed this finding with respect to Chelodina oblonga.

Kehlmaier et al. (2019)[18] analyzed mitochondrial genomes of key type specimens and resolved several questions regarding taxonomy and nomenclature.

[18][4] Synonymy of Chelodina oblonga, and redescriptions of the type specimens, per Shea, Thomson and Georges (2020):