Nagpur Soft-shell Turtle

Taxobox | name = Nagpur Soft-shelled Turtle
status = VU| trend = unknown
status_system = iucn2.3


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
familia = Trionychidae
genus = "Aspideretes"
species = "A. leithii"
binomial = "Aspideretes leithii"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1872)
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Nagpur Soft-shelled Turtle "Aspideretes leithii" is a species of turtle found in peninsular Indian rivers including the Bhavani, Godavari, and Moyar Rivers. The type locality is Poona in India.

Description

Intermediate between "Trionyx gangeticus" and "Trionyx hurum". Like the former in the width of the interorbital apace, the comparatively short mandibular symphysis, and the markings of the head; like the latter in the longer and more pointed snout, the absence of a strong ridge on the inner alveolar surface of the mandible, and in the presence, in the young, of four or more dorsal ocelli, which are, however, smaller than in "T. hurum". [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.]

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References

* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used
* Gray, J.E. 1872 Notes on the mud-tortoises of India (Trionyx, Geoffroy). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 10:326-340.

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