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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Dogania (Malayan Softshell Turtles)
species..............Dogania subplana (Malayan Softshell Turtle)
Original Description
Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire 1809a : 11
Holotype
MNHN 5182
Type Locality
"Patrie Inconnue"
Original name
Trionyx subplanus
Common Name
Malayan Softshell Turtle
Distribution
Southern Burma south through Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java (Malaysia and Indonesia); the Philippines record (de Rooij, 1915) is considered questionable (Taylor, 1920)
Comments
Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970) and Meylan (1987).
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