Indian peacock softshell turtle
{{Short description|Species of freshwater turtle}}
{{Distinguish|text=other species with similar common names at Indian softshell turtle (disambiguation) }}
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| image = Nilssonia hurum Hardwicke.jpg
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| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status2 = CITES_A1
| status2_system = CITES
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| genus = Nilssonia
| species = hurum
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- Trionyx occellatus Gray, 1830
- Trionyx hurum Gray, 1831
- Gymnopus duvaucelii Duméril & Bibron, 1835
- Gymnopus ocellatus Duméril & Bibron, 1835
- Trionyx bellii Gray, 1872
- Trionyx sewaare Gray, 1872
- Trionyx buchanani Theobald, 1874
- Isola hurum Baur, 1893
- Aspideretes hurum Hay, 1904
- Aspidonectes hurum Hay, 1904
- Tyrse hurum Hay, 1904
- Amyda hurum Barbour, 1912
- Gymnopus duvaucelli Smith, 1931
- Trionix hurum Richard, 1999
- Testudo chim Buchanan-Hamilton, 1831 (nomen nudum)
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Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum) is a species of turtle found in South Asia and is listed on the IUCN Red List as a vulnerable species.
File:Nilssonia hurum imported from iNaturalist photo 63219774 on 3 December 2020 (cropped).jpg
Geographical range
The Indian peacock soft-shell turtle is found in Bangladesh, India (the states of Mizoram, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Nepal and Pakistan.
Type locality in India: Fatehgarh, Ganges, to Barrackpore (about 23 kilometers north of Calcutta), West Bengal, India".Webb, R.G. 1980 Gray, Hardwicke, Buchanan-Hamilton, and drawings of Indian soft-shell turtles (Family Trionychidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 1: 61-74. Webb (1980: 71)
References
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- {{Anchor|CITEREFFritz2007}}{{cite journal|journal=Vertebrate Zoology |title=Checklist of Chelonians of the World |year=2007 |first=Uwe |last=Fritz |author2=Havaš, Peter |volume=57 |issue=2 |url=http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501060224/http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf |archivedate=2011-05-01 |url-status=dead }}
Further reading
- Safi, A., Khan, M. Z.,2014. Distribution and current population of freshwater turtles of District Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Journal of Zoology studies. 1(4): 31–38. http://www.journalofzoology.com
- Anderson, J. 1872 Note on Trionyx gangeticus, and Trionyx hurum, B. Hamilton. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 382-383
- Anderson, J. 1872 On Trionyx gangeticus, Cuvier, Trionyx hurum, B.H. and Dr. Gray. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 10: 219-222
- Gray, J. E. 1831 A synopsis of the species of Class Reptilia. In: Griffith, E & E. Pidgeon: The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier with additional descriptions of all the species hither named, and of many before noticed [Vol. 9]. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London: 481 + 110 pp.
- Gray, J.E. 1872 On Indian Mud-Tortoises (Trionyx). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 473-475
- Meylan, P.A. 1987 The phylogenetic relationships of soft-shelled turtles (Family Trionychidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 186 (1):1-101.
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