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    Species Accepted

    Nilssonia formosa (Gray, 1869)

    Burmese Peacock Softshell

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Birma-Weichschildkröte German
      Burma-Weichschildkröte German
      Burmese Peacock Softshell English
      Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle English
      Burmese Soft-shelled Turtle English
      Burmese Softshell Turtle English
      burmai lágyhéjúteknős Hungarian
      kožnatka myanmarská Czech
      Красивый трионикс Russian
      سلحفاة لينة الدرقة الطاووسية البورمية Arabic

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      24 results
      Farkas, B., & Praschag, P. (2025). First record of the critically endangered Burmese peacock soft-shelled turtle Nilssonia formosa from India (Testudines: Trionychidae). Zootaxa 5706 (3), 448–450.
      Platt, Steven G., Tint Lwin, Aung Lin Htet, Kalyar Platt, Peter Paul Van Dijk and Thomas R. Rainwater. (2016). Nilssonia formosa (Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle) Morphometrics, coloration, and photograph of neonate. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 125-126.
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. (2025). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 10:1-575.
      Liebing, Nicole; Peter Praschag , Rupali Gosh , Karthikeyan Vasudevan , s.M.a. Rashid, Ding-qi Rao , Heiko Stuckas & Uwe Fritz. (2012). 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): 261-272.
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      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.
      ENGSTROM, TAG N.; H. BRADLEY SHAFFER AND WILLIAM P. MCCORD. (2004). Multiple Data Sets, High Homoplasy, and the Phylogeny of Softshell Turtles (Testudines: Trionychidae). Systematic Biology 53 (5): 693–710.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      Webb, R. G. (2004). Trionychid turtle miscellany. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 119-121.

      Citation

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