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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Chitra (Narrow-headed Softshell Turtles)
species..............Chitra indica (Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831a : 18
- Holotype
- Plate 80, Gray 1831 "1830-35".
- Type Locality
- "India, fl. Ganges, Penang [Malaysia]" according to Gray (1831b:47); "Ganges" according to Gray (1831 "1830-35":Plate 80); restricted to "Fatehgarh, Ganges [India]" by Smith (1931:162); not restricted by Webb (1980a) to "Barrackpore (about 23 kilometers north Calcutta)" as stated by King and Burke (1989:110).
- Original name
- Trionyx indicus
- Common Name
- Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Pakistan and India to Thailand
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970), Webb (1980a), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991).
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