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).
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.
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (9139 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
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).
Etymology	Named after Dr. Peter Praschag, for his contributions in Asian turtle research and conservation.
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 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 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
External links	http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 67770F08-123C-45A9-9A10… Google images

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