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    Species Accepted

    Pelochelys bibroni (Owen, 1853)

    Asian Giant Softshell Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Pelochelys
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Asian Giant Softshell Turtle English
      Asian Giant soft-shelled Turtle English
      Asian or Bibron’s Giant soft-shelled Turtle English
      Bibron-lágyhéjúteknős Hungarian
      Bibrons Riesen-Weichschildkröte German
      Bibrons Riesenweichschildkröte German
      Bibron’s Giant soft-shelled Turtle English
      Labi-labi Irian English
      New Guinea Giant Softshell English
      New Guinea Giant Softshell Turtle English

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      29 results
      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Owen, R. (1853). Descriptive Catalogue of the Osteological Series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 1: Xlv + 350 Pp. [185].
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.
      McCord, W. P., & Joseph-Ouni, M. (2003). Chelonian Illustrations #6. Flapshell and Giant Asian Softshell Turtles. Reptilia (GB) (26): 59-64.
      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.
      Richards, S., & Simon Clulow, D. B. a. A. G. (2018). Chapter 1.4. Herpetofauna of the Wau Creek proposed Wildlife Management Area, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. In: Richards (ed.) Rapid biological assessments of Wau Creek ... ExxonMobil PNG Limited. Port Moresby, P. 83-96.
      Rhodin, Anders G.J.;Mittermeier, Russell A.;Hall, Philip M. (1993). Distribution, osteology, and natural history of the Asian giant softshell turtle, Pelochelys bibroni, in Papua New Guinea. Chelonian Conserv. Biol. 1 (1): 19-30.
      de Rooij, & de, N. (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), Xiv + 384 Pp.
      Webb, R. G. (1995). Redescription and neotype designation of Pelochelys bibroni from southern New Guinea (Testudines: Trionychidae). Chelonian Conserv. Biol. 1: 301-310.
      Strauch, A. (1890) Bemerkungen uber die Schildkrotensammlung im Zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg. (7) 38 (2), 1 - 127.

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