Nilssonia formosa
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Trionychoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Trionychidae
Subfamilia: Trionychinae
Genus: Nilssonia
Species: Nilssonia formosa
Name
[edit]- Nilssonia formosa (Gray, 1869)
- Type locality: "Pegu," Myanmar (= Burma).
- Holotype: BMNH, 1946.1.22.11.
Synonyms
[edit]- Trionyx formosus Gray 1869
- Trionyx (?) peyuensis Gray 1870
- Nilssonia formosa Gray 1872:332
- Trionyx grayii Theobald 1875
- Trionyx formosus Boulenger 1889
- Trionyx formosus Alderton 1988
- Nilssonia formosa Ernst & Barbour 1989
- Nilssonia formosa Kuchling et al., 2004
- Nilssonia formosa Praschag et al., 2007
References
[edit]- Gray, J.E. 1869. Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata), and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869:165-225.
- Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017.
. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
- IUCN: Nilssonia formosa Gray, 1869 (Endangered)
- Nilssonia formosa at the New Reptile Database
Vernacular names
[edit]Deutsch: Birma-Weichschildkröte
English: Burmese peacock softshell, Burmese Soft-shelled Turtle
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