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Original
Description |
Wiegmann 1835 : 189 |
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Type
Locality |
"kleinen Insel im Tigerflusse, dicht bei Macao" (= small island in the Tiger River near Macao) [China]; see Comment |
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Syntypes |
(3 specimens) ZMB 38; ZMB 39 (extant); ZMB 37 (lost). |
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Original name |
Trionyx (aspidonectes) sinensis |
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Common
name |
Chinese Softshell Turtle |
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Distribution |
USSR (extreme southeastern Siberia), China (from Manchuria to Taiwan and Hainan islands), Korea, Japan, and northern Vietnam; introduced into Hawaii, USA (McKeown and Webb, 1982 |
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Comments |
Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx sinensis), Pope (1935; as Amyda sinensis), Bourret (1941; as Trionyx sinensis), Ernst and Barbour (1972; as Trionyx sinensis), and Meylan (1987). The type of Testudo rostrata (Thunberg, 1787:179) in the Uppsala Museum in Sweden is not Amyda cartilaginea as usually recorded (e.g., Wermuth and Mertens, 1977:107); it has been identified as Pelodiscus sinensis by Webb (1985:84). The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature was petitioned (Case 2693; Webb, 1990a) to suppress the earlier name and conserve Wiegmann's name; conservation of the latter was mandated by ICZN Opinion 1659 (in 1991). |
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