EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Amyda cartilaginea
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Amyda (Asiatic Softshell Turtles)
species..............Amyda cartilaginea (Asiatic Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Boddaert 1770 : no pagination
- Holotype
- Not designated; MNHN 4150 according to R. Bour pers. comm. to R. G. Webb.
- Type Locality
- Not stated; designated as "Java" by Baur (1893b:220)
- Original name
- Testudo cartilaginea
- Common Name
- Asiatic Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Southern Burma to Vietnam and south to Sumatra, Kalimantan (Borneo) and Java, Indonesia
- Comments
- Includes Trionyx nakornsrithammarajensis Wirot (1979:209) according to Meylan (1987:10). Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx cartilagineus), Bourret (1941; as Trionyx cartilagineus), and Taylor (1970; as Trionyx cartilagineus) and Meylan (1987).
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