Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 259-260

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968214

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE98-B975-FF6B-42BA7D290FBC

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825)
status

 

Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Ganges Soft-shelled Turtle

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. Specimen NMW-30266 was exchanged from what is now Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste in 1881 and has the location Singapore. Clearly, the specimen was traded in Singapore as the native range of N. gangetica is Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal (TTWG 2021).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): NMW.

Order Squamata Oppel, 1811 (61 species)

Lizards (15 species)

Family Agamidae Gray, 1827 (5 species)

Genus Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (1 species)

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Testudines

Family

Trionychidae

Genus

Nilssonia

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