Nilssonia gangetica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trionychoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Trionychoidea

Familia: Trionychidae
Subfamilia: Trionychinae
Genus: Nilssonia
Species: Nilssonia gangetica

Name

• Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier 1825: 203)
  • Type locality: "du Gange," (=Ganges River), India
  • Syntypes: MNHN-RA 4148 and MNHN-RA 9387

Synonyms

• Trionyx gangeticus Cuvier 1825: 203
  • Trionys hurum Gray 1831: 18 (partim)
  • Gymnopus duvaucelii Duméril & Bibron 1835: 487 (partim)
  • Tyrse javanica Gray 1844: 47 (partim)
  • Tyrse gangetica Gray 1844: 47 (partim)
  • Aspilus gataghol Gray 1872
  • Trionyx gangeticus Murray 1886: 10
  • Trionyx gangeticus mahanaddicus Annandale 1889
  • Isola gangeticus Baur 1893
  • Trionyx gangeticus Alderton 1988
  • Aspideretes gangeticus Ernst & Barbour 1989
  • Aspideretes gangeticus Gemel & Praschag 2003
  • Nilssonia gangetica Praschag et al. 2007
  • Aspideretes gangeticus Fritz & Havas 2007
  • Aspideretes gangeticus Rohilla & Tiwari 2008
  • Aspideretes gangeticus Baig et al. 2008
  • Aspideretes gangetica Lenz 2012
  • Nilssonia gangetica Liebing et al. 2012
  • Nilssonia gangetica TTWG 2014: 416

References

• Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1825. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l'on rétablit les caractères du plusieurs espèces d'animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris. ed. 3, 5 vols.
• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5: 329–479. PDF. Reference page. 
• 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. 

Vernacular names

čeština: Kožnatka ganžská
Deutsch: Ganges-Weichschildkröte
English: Indian softshell turtle