EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Aspideretes nigricans
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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 nigricans (Black Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Anderson 1875 : 284
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) ZSI 664; ZSI 1898
- Type Locality
- "Tanks at Chittagong, Bengal" [Bangladesh]
- Original name
- Trionyx nigricans
- Common Name
- Black Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Known only from a single enclosed pond at the type locality at the Islamic Saint Byazid Bastami Shrine at Nasirabad near Chittagong, Bangladesh.
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Trionyx nigricans), Groombridge (1982; as Trionyx nigricans), Meylan (1987), Ahsan and Saeed (1989), and Ahsan et al. (1991).
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