EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Aspideretes gangeticus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Aspideretes (Indian Softshell Turtles)
species..............Aspideretes gangeticus (Indian Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Cuvier 1825 : 186, 203
- Syntypes
- (4 specimens) MNHN 4148; MNHN 9387; MNHN 1887-838; MNHN A5226 (= 1866-751)
- Type Locality
- "Gange" [= Ganges River, India]
- Original name
- Trionyx gangeticus
- Common Name
- Indian Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Indus and Ganges and Mahanadi river basins in Pakistan, northern India, southern Nepal, and Bangladesh
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx gangeticus), Minton (1966; as Trionyx gangeticus), Tikader and Sharma (1985; as Trionyx gangeticus), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991).
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