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Pelodiscus huike LIU, FU, MA, ZHOU, BLANCK, ZHOU, XIAO & MO, 2024

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Higher TaxaTrionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Chinese gray softshell turtle 
SynonymPelodiscus huike LIU, FU, MA, ZHOU, BLANCK, ZHOU, XIAO & MO 2024 
DistributionChina (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan)

Type locality: Yudai River, Tongdao County, Hunan Province, China (26°09¢ N 109°46’ E),  
Reproduction 
TypesLectotype. JNU 20210001, adult male (Jinan University, Guangzhou), previously designated as neotype of P. axenaria. leg. Shiping Gong, 25 May 2021; European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) accession numbers for DNA sequences: cyt b—OW235725, P26S4—OW235773, R35—OW237758 and OW237759 (two alleles), TB01—OW235754 and OW235755 (two alleles). See Liu et al. 2024 for details. 
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References
  • Liu, J. Y., Fu, W., Ma, Y. H., Zhou, T., Blanck, T., Zhou, G. J., ... & Mo, X. Y. 2024. Shedding Light into the Confusing History of Pelodiscus axenaria (Zhou, Zhang et Fang, 1991), Clarifying and Correcting Its Taxonomic Position within the P. axenaria Complex with the Description of Yet Another Pelodiscus Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 31(6), 337-350 - get paper here
 
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