Morenia petersi (ANDERSON, 1879)

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Higher Taxa	Geoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Indian Eyed Turtle G:Vorderindische Pfauenaugenschildkröte
Synonym	Batagur (Morenia) petersi ANDERSON 1879 Morenia petersi — BOULENGER 1889 Morenia petersi — DAS 1996: 38 Morenia petersi — MURTHY 2010: 23 Morenia petersi — TTWG 2021
Distribution	NE India (Assam, Odisha, as far west as Bihar), Nepal, Bangladesh Type locality: Huzurapur (Jessore District), Furreedpore and Dacca, Bangladesh.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Syntypes: ZSI 155 and 156
Diagnosis
Comment	Iverson (1986:58) believes the holotype is in the IMC, which today is primarily an ethnographic museum. Many specimens reported to be in the IMC, or in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, are in the ZSI (after KING & BURKE 1989). Habitat: freshwater (Rivers, swamps, tributaries)
Etymology	Named after Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883), German herpetologist.
References	Anderson, J. 1879. Reptilia and amphibia. In: Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875. Volume I. [pages 703-860, 969-975 index.]. Bernard Quarich, London, Vol. I: 705– 860,[1878] - get paper here Anderson, JOHN 1879. Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan in 1866 and 1875; and a Monograph of the Two Cetacean Genera Platanista and Orcella. Volume II. Atlas. Bernard Quaritch, London "1878".; Atlas: 85 plates [herpetological plates 55-78, 75A, 75B]). - get paper here Baruah, Chittaranjan & D.K. Sharma 2010. Indian Eyed Turtle Morenia petersi (Anderson, 1879) in the Deepor Beel, Ramsar site. Reptile Rap (9): 6-7 - get paper here Behera, S., Mohapatra, P. P., & Mardaraj, P. 2023. Occurrence of Indian Eyed Turtle, Morenia petersi Anderson 1879 (Geoemydidae), in state of Odisha, India: A new record for the state. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18361 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1889. Catalogue of the chelonians, rhynchocephalians, and crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum, London, 311 pp. Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here Das, I. et al. 2008. Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles of India. WWF/WII poster Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London Iverson, J.B. 1986. A Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Paust Printing, Richmond, Indiana. viii + 282 pp. Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here Lenz, Norbert 2012. Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 pp. Mahapatra, DA, Ghorai, SK, Patra, A, Santra, V 2020. Occurrence, conservation status and threats to the Indian eyed turtle (Morenia petersi), in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India. Herpetological Bulletin 151: 39-40 - get paper here Mital, A; Vasudevan, K; Singh, S & Baskaran, N; 2019. Morenia petersi (Indian Eyed Turtle) Life history and distribution. Herpetological Review 50 (1): 127-128 - get paper here Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. Purkayastha J. 2013. An Amateur’s Guide to Reptiles of Assam. EBH Publishers (India) - get paper here Purkayastha, J. 2018. Urban biodiversity: an insight into the terrestrial vertebrate diversity of Guwahati, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(10): 12299–12316; - get paper here Purkayastha, J., DAS, I., Sengupta, S. 2015. Freshwater Turtles & Tortoises of South Asia. Bhabani Books, 138 pp. - get paper here Purkayastha, Jayaditya; Ahmed Mahmadul Hassan, Hasanul Islam, Jessica Das, Manoj Sarma, Mituseela Basumatary, Nilakshi Sarma, Nishant Chatterjee, Sachin Singha, Vishnupriya Nair, Arundhati Purkayastha, Jayashree Dutta, Madhurima Das 2013. Turtles of the Temple Pond of Kamakhya, Assam, India. Reptile Rap (15): 11-15 - get paper here Rai, T.P. & S. Adhikari 2021. Confirmatory record of Indian Eyed Turtle from Lumbini in Nepal. Reptile Rap #207, In: Zoo’s Print 36(5): 05–08 - get paper here Smith, Malcolm A. 1931. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia Volume I.—Loricata, Testudines. Taylor and Francis, London, 185 pp. - get paper here 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.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.chelonia.org/morenia_gallery.htm https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Riama%20unicolor Google images

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