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

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Higher TaxaGeoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Assam Box Turtle
G: Assam—Scharnierschildkröte 
SynonymCuora 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). 
DistributionIndia (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 
TypesHolotype. 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. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (9139 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentTypes: 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). 
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
  • 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
 
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