- Aspideretes hurum
Taxobox | name = Peacock Soft-shelled Turtle
status = VU| status_system = iucn2.3
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Sauropsid a
ordo =Testudines
subordo =Cryptodira
familia =Trionychidae
genus = "Aspideretes "
species = "A. hurum"
binomial = "Aspideretes hurum"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1831)
synonyms = "Trionyx hurum"
range_
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range_map_caption =Peacock Soft-shelled Turtle "Aspideretes hurum" is a species of turtle found in Nepal, India, Bangladesh (in the Brahmaputra and Ganges rivers), Pakistan (fide Khan, pers. comm.).Type locality: "India"; restricted by M A Smith to "Fatehgarh, Ganges," India; restricted by Webb (1980: 71), to "Barrackpore (about 23 kilometers north Calcutta), West Bengal, India"
References
* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used
* 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.
* Webb, R.G. 1980 Gray, Hardwicke, Buchanan-Hamilton, and drawings of Indian softshell turtles (Family Trionychidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 1: 61-74.
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