EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Dogania subplana
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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)
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- 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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