EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Lissemys
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Cyclanorbinae (Flapshell Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Lissemys (Indian Flapshell Turtles)
species
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L. punctata (Indian Flapshell Turtle)
L. scutata (Burmese Flapshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Smith 1931 : 154
- Common Name
- Indian Flapshell Turtles
- Distribution
- Pakistan through India to Sri Lanka and Burma
- Comments
- Lissemys is a replacement name for Emyda Gray (1831a:19), which is preoccupied by Emyda Rafinesque (1815), and Cryptopus Duméril and Bibron (1835:499), which is preoccupied by Cryptopus Latreille (1829). Reviewed by Smith (1931) and Meylan (1987).
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