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Original
Description |
Bonnaterre 1789 : 30 |
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Type
Locality |
"des grandes Indes"; restricted by Webb (1980b:553) to "Pondicherry, Coromandel Coast, India" |
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Holotype |
MNHN 7978 |
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Original name |
Testudo punctata |
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Common
name |
Indian Flapshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
Pakistan, India, Nepal, western Burma, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh; introduced in the Andaman Islands (Das, 1991) |
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Comments |
Originally described by Lacepéde (1788:171), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN Opinion 1463 (1987). Reviewed by Webb (1980b and 1982), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991). |
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