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Original
Description |
Cuvier 1825 : 186, 203 |
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Type
Locality |
"Gange" [= Ganges River, India] |
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Syntypes |
(4 specimens) MNHN 4148; MNHN 9387; MNHN 1887-838; MNHN A5226 (= 1866-751) |
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Original name |
Trionyx gangeticus |
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Common
name |
Indian Softshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
Indus and Ganges and Mahanadi river basins in Pakistan, northern India, southern Nepal, and Bangladesh |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx gangeticus), Minton (1966; as Trionyx gangeticus), Tikader and Sharma (1985; as Trionyx gangeticus), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991). |
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