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    Species Accepted

    Nilssonia nigricans (Anderson, 1875)

    Black Soft-shell Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Nilssonia
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Black Soft-shell Turtle English
      Black Soft-shelled Turtle English
      Black Softshell Turtle English
      Bostami Softshell English
      Bostami Turtle English
      Botsami Softshell English
      Brahmaputra-Weichschildkröte German
      Dunkle Weichschildkröte German
      Tempel-Weichschildkröte German
      fekete lágyhéjúteknős Hungarian

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      34 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      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.
      Praschag, & Reiner. (2022). Die Dunkle Weichschildkröte, Nilssonia nigricans – ein Beispiel für praktischen Artenschutz. Elaphe 2022 (6): 28-41.
      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.
      Purkayastha, J., DAS, I., & Sengupta, S. (2015). Freshwater Turtles & Tortoises of South Asia. Bhabani Books, 138 Pp.
      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.
      Basumatary, Rajeev and D.K. Sharma. (2013). The turtle fauna of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India with notes on natural history and conservation status. Herpetology Notes 6: 59-72.
      Dutta, G., I.F. Hussain, P.J. Nath & M.F. Ahmed. (2022). New distribution record of Black Softshell Turtle Nilssonia nigricans (Anderson, 1875) from Manas National Park, Assam, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14(10): 22029–22031.
      Purkayastha, J. (2013). An Amateur’s Guide to Reptiles of Assam. EBH Publishers (India).
      Praschag, Peter; Tapil Prakash Rai & Hermann Schleich. (2022). First record of the critically endangered Black softshell turtle, Nilssonia nigricans (ANDERSON, 1875) for Nepal. Arco-Nepal Newsletter 24 (October 2022):

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