Nilssonia formosa

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
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 formosa
Name

Nilssonia formosa (Gray, 1869)
Type locality: "Pegu," Myanmar (= Burma).
Holotype: BMNH, 1946.1.22.11.

Synonyms

Trionyx formosus Gray 1869
Trionyx (?) peyuensis Gray 1870
Nilssonia formosa Gray 1872:332
Trionyx grayii Theobald 1875
Trionyx formosus Boulenger 1889
Trionyx formosus Alderton 1988
Nilssonia formosa Ernst & Barbour 1989
Nilssonia formosa Kuchling et al., 2004
Nilssonia formosa Praschag et al., 2007

References

Gray, J.E. 1869. Notes on the families and genera of tortoises (Testudinata), and on the characters afforded by the study of their skulls. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869:165-225.
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. Paywall. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
IUCN: Nilssonia formosa Gray, 1869 (Endangered)
Nilssonia formosa at the New Reptile Database

Vernacular names
čeština: Kožnatka myanmarská
Deutsch: Birma-Weichschildkröte
English: Burmese peacock softshell, Burmese Soft-shelled Turtle

The Burmese peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia formosa) is a species of softshell turtle in the Trionychidae family. It is one of five species in the genus Nilssonia.[3]

Geographical region

The Burmese peacock softshell is found in Burma and possibly Thailand.[1] Also reported to found in karbi anglong district of Assam. Nuclear data analyses of a Nilssonia formosa caught near Shuangbai, Yunnan, China by researchers in 2012 suggests the species crossed the watershed between the Salween and Mekong Rivers.[4]
References

Horne, B.D.; Platt, K.; Praschag, P. (2021). "Nilssonia formosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T14765A546244. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T14765A546244.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
Fritz 2007, p. 316
"JCVI.org". Archived from the original on 2009-06-15. Retrieved 2010-05-09.

Liebing, Nicole, et al. "Molecular phylogeny of the softshell turtle genus Nilssonia revisited, with first records of N. formosa for China and wild-living N. nigricans for Bangladesh." Vertebrate Zoology 62.2 (2012): 261-272.

Bibliography

Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01.