EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Rafetus euphraticus
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Trionychidae (Softshell Turtles)
subfamily.......Trionychinae (Common Softshell Turtles)
genus...............Rafetus (Bicallosite Softshell Turtles)
species..............Rafetus euphraticus (Euphrates Softshell Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Daudin 1802 : 305
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- "dans le Tigre et l'Euphrate"
- Original name
- Testudo euphratica
- Common Name
- Euphrates Softshell Turtle
- Distribution
- Tigris-Euphrates river basin in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, Iraq, and southwestern Iran
- Comments
- Reviewed by Meylan (1987).
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