Malayan Soft-Shelled Turtle

Taxobox
name = Malayan Soft-Shelled Turtle
status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
familia = Trionychidae
genus = "Dogania"
species = "D. subplana"
binomial = "Dogania subplana"
binomial_authority = Geoffroy, 1809
synonyms = The Malayan Soft-Shelled Turtle ("Dogania subplana") is a species of softshell turtle in the Trionychidae family.It it found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Singapore.

The Philippines had these rare species on 2001, but it was only this year that a juvenile Cantor’s Soft-Shelled Turtle known as “cagot" appeared and was captured by a fisherman along the Addalam River, Cabarroguis, Quirino, Isabela. On 2001, this turtle was sent to Chicago, and later confirmed to be an endangered turtle specie. [ [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/105818/After-seven-years-rare-soft-shelled-turtle-resurfaces-in-Quirino-Province gmanews.tv/story, After seven years, rare soft-shelled turtle resurfaces in Quirino Province] ] [ [http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/gma/20080708/tel-after-seven-years-rare-soft-shelled-f858f91.html news.yahoo.com, After seven years, rare soft-shelled turtle resurfaces in Quirino Province] ]

ource

* Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/46578/all Dogania subplana] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 July 2007.

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