Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 259-260

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968214
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE98-B975-FF6B-42BA7D290FBC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825)
status

Treatment

Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Ganges Soft-shelled Turtle

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. Specimen NMW-30266 was exchanged from what is now Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste in 1881 and has the location Singapore. Clearly, the specimen was traded in Singapore as the native range of N. gangetica is Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal (TTWG 2021).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): NMW.

Order Squamata Oppel, 1811 (61 species)

Lizards (15 species)

Family Agamidae Gray, 1827 (5 species)

Genus Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (1 species)