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Original
Description |
Gray 1831a : 18 |
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Type
Locality |
"India"; "Indiae fluvio Ganges" [India] according to Gray (1831b:47); restricted to "Fatehgarh, Ganges" [India] by Smith (1931:171); restricted by Webb (1980a:71) to "Barrackpore (about 23 kilometers north Calcutta), West Bengal, India" |
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Holotype |
Plate 66, Gray 1835 "1830-35". |
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Original name |
Trionyx hurum |
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Common
name |
Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin in eastern India and Bangladesh; single specimen from the Indus basin in Pakistan (Mertens, 1979) needs confirmation |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx hurum), Bourret (1941; as Trionyx hurum), Tikader and Sharma (1985; as Trionyx hurum), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991). |
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