Brown roofed turtle

Brown roofed turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Pangshura
Species: P. smithii
Binomial name
Pangshura smithii
(Gray, 1863)
Synonyms[1][2]
Pangshura smithii smithii
  • Batagur smithii
    Gray, 1863
  • Pangshura smithii
    — Günther, 1864
  • Clemmys smithii
    — Strauch, 1865
  • Pangshura smith [sic]
    Theobald, 1868 (ex errore)
  • Emia smithii
    — Gray, 1870
  • Kachuga smithii
    — Boulenger, 1889
  • Kachuga smithi [sic]
    M.A. Smith, 1931 (ex errore)
  • Kachuga amithii [sic]
    Rudloff, 1974 (ex errore)
  • Kachuga smithi smithi
    — Moll, 1987
  • Kachuga smithii smithii
    — Moll, 1987
  • Pangshura smithii smithii
    — Das, 2001
  • Pngshura [sic] smithii
    — Das, 2001
  • Pangshura smithi
    — Gurley, 2003
  • Pangshura smithi smithi
    — Joseph-Ouni, 2004
Pangshura smithii pallidipes
  • Kachuga smithii pallidipes
    Moll, 1987
  • Kachuga smithi pallidipes
    — van Dijk, 2000
  • Pangshura smithii pallidipes
    — Das, 2001
  • Pangshura smithi pallidipes
    — Joseph-Ouni, 2004

The brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii ) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to South Asia. Two subspecies are recognized.

Etymology

The specific name, smithii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist Andrew Smith.[3]


Subspecies and geographic ranges

Two subspecies are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Pangshura smithii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T39554A97374523. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39554A10248159.en. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 239. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kachuga smithii, p. 246).

Further reading

  • Auffenberg, Walter; Khan, Naeem Ahmed (1991). "Studies of Pakistan reptiles: Notes on Kachuga smithi ". Hamadryad 16: 25-29.
  • Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Kachuga smithii, p. 42).
  • Das I (2002). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-056-5. (Pangshura smithii, p. 129).
  • Gray JE (1863). "Notice of a new species of Batagur ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 253. (Batagur smithii, new species).
  • Moll EO (1987). "Survey of the freshwater turtles of India. Part II: The genus Kachuga ". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 84: 7-25. (Kachuga smithii pallidipes, new subspecies, p. 8 + Plate 3, figures B-C).
  • Smith MA (1931). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.—Loricata, Testudines. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxviii + 185 pp. + Plates I-II. ("Kachuga smithi [sic]", pp. 125–126).
  • Spinks, Phillip Q.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Iverson, John B.; McCord, William P. (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-11.
  • Kachuga smithii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database.
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