EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Batagur baska
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Batagur (River Terrapins)
species..............Batagur baska (River Terrapin)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831 "1831-1835" : Plate 75
- Holotype
- Not located; specimen illustrated in Gray's original paper.
- Type Locality
- Not stated; "India" according to Gray (1831b:23)
- Original name
- Emys baska
- Common Name
- River Terrapin
- Distribution
- Eastern India and Bangladesh through Burma, Thailand, Kampuchea (= Cambodia), and Malaya to Sumatra, Indonesia
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970), Moll (1980), Groombridge (1982), Tikader and Sharma (1985), and Das (1991).
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