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)
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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