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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Cyclanorbinae (Flapshell Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Lissemys (Indian Flapshell Turtles)
species..............Lissemys punctata (Indian Flapshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Bonnaterre 1789 : 30
- Holotype
- MNHN 7978
- Type Locality
- "des grandes Indes"; restricted by Webb (1980b:553) to "Pondicherry, Coromandel Coast, India"
- Original name
- Testudo punctata
- Common Name
- Indian Flapshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Pakistan, India, Nepal, western Burma, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh; introduced in the Andaman Islands (Das, 1991)
- Comments
- Originally described by Lacepéde (1788:171), but that work was made unavailable by ICZN Opinion 1463 (1987). Reviewed by Webb (1980b and 1982), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Meylan (1987), and Das (1991).
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