Cuora praschagi BLANCK, GAILLARD, PROTIVA, WHEATLEY, SHI, LIU, RAY & ANDERS, 2023

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Higher Taxa	Geoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Assam Box Turtle G: Assam—Scharnierschildkröte
Synonym	Cuora praschagi BLANCK, GAILLARD, PROTIVA, WHEATLEY, SHI, LIU, RAY & ANDERS 2023: 38 Cuora amboinensis kamaroma — RUMMLER & FRITZ 1991 (partim) Cuora jackyhoserae — HOSER 2021 (nomen rejectum, partim). Cuora praschagi — TTWG 2025
Distribution	India (Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, potentially northern Tripura, possibly N West Bengal), Bhutan (S Sarpang, Zhemgang, and Samdrup Jongkhar, possibly S Chukha and Samtse districts), Bangladesh (Chittagong, Sylhet, potentially N Dhaka districts). Type locality: Gelabill River, Jorhat District, Assam, India.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype. MHNG 1557.15 (Figs. 31 and 32), un-sexed juvenile, SCL 81 mm, collected from Jorhat dis- trict, Gela Bil River (= Gelabill River = Bhogdoi River), Assam, India in 1969 by G. Pilleri (mentioned as “Emys trijuga?” in Pilleri, 1970), donated to MHNG in 1973.
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Comment	Types: MHNH-RA-0.7932 with the stated locality “Inde” is not from India, as believed by Hoser (2021), who clearly did not examine the specimen, but clearly represents a Cuora amboinensis amboinensis from Indonesia (“Indes oritentales” in French) and as such is mislabeled (Blanck et al. 2023). Distribution: see map in TTWG 2025.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Peter Praschag (1945–2023), for his contributions in Asian turtle research and conservation. See Gemel 2023 for biographical notes.
References	Blanck, Torsten; Daniel Gaillard, Tomáš Protiva, Madeleine Wheatley, Haitao Shi, Lin Liu, Parimal Chandra Ray, Ben Anders 2023. A Taxonomic Hide and Seek: Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic Relationships in the Southeast Asian Box Turtle, Cuora amboinensis (Riche in Daudin, 1801). Russ. J. Herp. 30 (6) (Supplement): 1 – 52 - get paper here Gemel, Richard 2023. In memoriam Reiner Praschag (1945–2023) – persönliche Erinnerungen. Elaphe 2024 (1): 36-39 Hoser R. T. 2021. Audit finds dozens of unnamed turtle taxa. A body of evidence results in newly named genera, subgenera, species and subspecies based on historical and morphological divergence. Australasian J. Herpetol., 52 – 53, 1 – 128 Kwet, Axel 2024. Liste der im Jahr 2023 neu beschriebenen Reptilien Elaphe 2024 (3): 50 Rummler, H. J. & U. FRITZ 1991. Geographische Variabilität der Amboina-Scharnierschildkröte Cuora amboinensis (DAUDIN, 1802), mit Beschreibung einer neuen Unterart, C. a. kamaroma subsp. nov. Salamandra 27 (1-2): 17-45 - get paper here TTWG [TURTLE TAXONOMY WORKING GROUP: RHODIN, A.G.J., IVERSON, J.B., FRITZ, U., GALLEGO-GARCÍA, N., GEORGES, A., SHAFFER, H.B., AND VAN DuK, P.P.]. 2025. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th 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 10:1-575 - get paper here
External links	http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 67770F08-123C-45A9-9A10… Google images

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