- Chitra indica
Taxobox | name = Narrow-headed soft-shelled Turtle
status = EN| status_system = iucn2.3
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Sauropsid a
ordo =Testudines
subordo =Cryptodira
familia =Trionychidae
genus = "Chitra "
species = "C. indica"
binomial = "Chitra indica"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1831)
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range_map_caption =Narrow-headed soft-shelled Turtle "Chitra indica" is a species of turtle found in the major rivers of
India andPakistan .Diagnostic characters
# Overall color: olive to deep olive-green;
# Very complex midline (vertebral) carapacial pattern;
# Midline (vertebral) carapacial stripe present;
# Complex radiatingcostal stripes;
# Paramedian neck stripes forming a bell-like pattern onanterior carapace absent;
# Neck stripes do not form a continuous light rim around carapace;
# No distinct pair of neck stripes;
# Dark speckling on "light" (head and neck) stripes;
# Anterior neck "V" divergence point on neck;
# 3-4 forelimb lamellae;
# No peri-orbital X pattern;
# No distinct peri-orbital ocelli;
# No distinct naso-orbital triangular "figure";
# Few, if any, black dots present on chin pattern.Type locality: "India, fl. Ganges, Penang"; restricted by Smith (1931:162) to "
Fatehgarh , Ganges," India = "India: Ganges; Futtaghur" (Gray 1864: 92)Distribution
Ganges, Godavari, Mahanadi, Sutlaj, Indus)
Pakistan ,Nepal andBangladesh .References
* Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is endangered and the criteria used
* Boulenger, G.A. 1889 Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum, London, 311 pp.
* Engstrom, Tag N., H. Bradley Shaffer, and William P. McCord. 2002 Phylogenetic Diversity of Endangered and Critically Endangered Southeast Asian Softshell Turtles (TrionychidaChitra). Biological Conservation 104 (2):173-179
* 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. 1831 Synopsis Reptilium or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I: Cataphracta, tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians. Treuttel, Wurz & Co., London, 85 pp.
* Gray, J.E. 1844 Catalogue of Tortoises, Crocodilians, and Amphisbaenians in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. viii + 80 p.
* Gray, J. E. 1864 Revision of the species of Trionychidae found in Asia and Africa, with descriptions of some new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 76-98
* Webb, R.G. 1980 Gray, Hardwicke, Buchanan-Hamilton, and drawings of Indian softshell turtles (Family Trionychidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 1: 61-74.External links
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