Chitra vandijki MCCORD & PRITCHARD, 2003

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Higher Taxa	Trionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Myanmar Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle
Synonym	Chitra vandijki MCCORD & PRITCHARD 2003 Chitra Indica — THEOBALD 1876: 27 (part.) Gymnopus lineatus — THEOBALD 1876: 27 (part.) Gymnopus indicus — BOULENGER 1889: 263 (part.) Pelochelys cantorii — BOULENGER 1889: 263 (part.) Pelochelys cumingii — BOULENGER 1889: 263 (part.) Pelochelys bibronii — BOULENGER 1889: 263 (part.) Trionyx indicus — BOULENGER 1889: 264 (part.) Trionyx aegyptiacus var. indicus — BOULENGER 1889: 264 (part.) Trionyx aegyptianus var. indicus — BOULENGER 1890: 16 (part.) Trionyx (Gymnopus) bibroni — POPE 1935: 56 (part.) Pelochelys poljakowii — POPE 1935: 56 (part.) Trionyx indica — TAYLOR 1970: 152 (part.) Trionyx aegyptiacus var. indica — TAYLOR 1970: 152 (part.) Chitra burmanica JARTHANIN 2002 (nom. nud.) Chitra vandijki — KUCHLING et al. 2004 Chitra vandijki — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 27 Chitra vandijki — TTWG 2021
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma), NW Thailand Type locality: Khayansat Kone Village, Ayeyarwady River system, NE Myanmar.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: private collection, PCHP 7059 (PCH Pritchard, CRI = Chelonian Research Institute, Oviedo, Florida)
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS (DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS): (1) overall color: chocolate brown; (2) moderately complex midline (vertebral) carapacial pattern; (3) midline (vertebral) carapacial stripe absent; (4) simple radiating costal stripes; (5) paramedian neck stripes forming a bell-like pattern on anterior carapace absent; (6) neck stripes do not form a continuous light rim around carapace; (7) distinct pair of neck stripes present; (8) no dark speckling on “light” (head and neck) stripes; (9) anterior neck “V” divergence point on neck; (10) 3-4 forelimb lamellae; (11) no peri-orbital X pattern; (12) distinct peri-orbital ocelli present; (13) no (or partial) distinct naso-orbital triangular “figure”; (14) black dots present on chin pattern. [MCCORD & PRITCHARD (2002)]
Comment	The holotype was actually obtained in the Ruili market, Yunnan, China. Synonymy mostly after MCCORD & PRITCHARD 2003. Habitat: freshwater (rivers and tributaries)
Etymology	Named in honour of Peter Paul van Dijk, Dutch zoologist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bonin, F., Devaux, B. & Dupré, A. 2006. Turtles of the World. English translation by P.C.H. Pritchard. Johns Hopkins University Press, 416 pp. Boulenger, G.A. 1889. Catalogue of the chelonians, rhynchocephalians, and crocodiles in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum, London, 311 pp. - get paper here Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here Kuchling, G.; Win Ko Ko; Tint Lwin; Sein Aung Min; Khin Myo Myo, Thin Thin Khaing (II), Win Win Mar & Thin Thin Khaing (I) 2004. The softshell turtles and their exploitation at the upper Chindwin River, Myanmar: range extensions for Amyda cartilaginea, Chitra vandijki, and Nilssonia formosa. Salamandra 40 (3-4): 281-296 - get paper here McCord, W. P., O. S. G. Pauwels, R. Bour, F. Chérot, J. B. Iverson, P. C. H. Pritchard, K. Thirakhupt, W. Kitimasak and T. Bundhitwongrut. 2003. Chitra burmanica sensu Jaruthanin, 2002 (Testudines: Trionychidae): An unavailable name. Hamadryad 27 (2):214-216 - get paper here McCord, William P. and Peter C. H. Pritchard 2003. A review of the softshell turtles of the genus Chitra, with the description of new taxa from Myanmar and Indonesia (Java). Hamadryad 27 (1):11-56 [2002] - get paper here Platt, S. G., Win, M. M., Platt, K., Haislip, N. A. and Rainwater, T. R. 2020. Aspects of the reproductive biology of Chitra vandijki with a description of neonates. Salamandra 56: 66-70. - get paper here Platt, Steven G.; Tint Lwin, Naing Win, Htay Lin Aung, Kalyar Platt & Thomas R. Rainwater, Pp. 2017. An interview-based survey to determine the conservation status of Softshell Turtles (Reptilia: Trionychidae) in the Irrawaddy Dolphin Protected Area, Myanmar. JoTT 9 (12): 10998–11008 - get paper here Pope, CLIFFORD H. 1935. The Reptiles of China. Turtes, Crocodilians, Snakes, Lizards. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, Nat. Hist. Central Asia, 10: lii, 1-604 - get paper here Taylor, E.H. 1970. Turtles and crocodilians of Thailand and adjacent waters, with a synoptic herpetological bibliography. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 49: 87-179. - get paper here Theobald,W. 1876. Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta: xiii + 238 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 XIAOYOU, HONG; ZHU XINPING, CHEN CHEN, CAI XIAODAN, LI YONGMING & LI XINPING. 2022. Reproductive characteristics of the Burmese Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle, Chitra vandijki, in captivity. Amphib. Reptile Conserv. 16(2): 62–68. - get paper here
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