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Dogania subplana (GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, 1809)

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Higher TaxaTrionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Malayan Soft-shelled Turtle
G: Malayische Weichschildkröte 
SynonymTrionyx subplanus GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1809: 366
Trionyx frenatus GRAY 1855
Gymnopus Subplanus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 496
Amyda subplanus — FITZINGER 1835: 110 (fide SMITH 1963)
Trionyx subplanus— SCHLEGEL et al. 1838: 34
Dogania subplana — GRAY 1844: 49
Dogania subplana — GRAY 1855: 69
Dogania guentheri GRAY 1863: 158
Trionyx (?) dillwynii GRAY 1873
Trionyx subplanus — BOULENGER 1889: 246
Trionyx vertebralis STRAUCH 1890
Dogania subplana — STEJNEGER 1907: 531
Trionyx pecki BARTLETT 1895
Dogania subplana — HENDRICKSON 1966: 55
Trionyx subplanus — ALDERTON 1988
Dogania subplana — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 97
Dogania subplana — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 464
Dogania subplana — COX et al. 1998: 135
Dogania subplana — TTWG 2014
Dogania subplana — TTWG 2021 
DistributionS Myanmar (= Burma), Mergui Islands, Thailand (incl. Phuket), West Malaysia (incl. Pulau Tioman),
Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Singkep, Natuna Besar), Brunei, Singapore,
Philippines

Type locality: unknown fide KING & BURKE 1989  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA (actuallly MNHN-AC = Comparative Anatomy) A.5182 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): BAUR (1893) defines Dogania as follows: Posterior nares reduced in size by the inner extension of the maxillaries. Alveolar surface of lower jaw without a longitudinal symphyseal ridge; eight pairs of pleuralia, all separated by neurals; a single neural between the first pair of pleurals.


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CommentType Species: Trionyx subplanus GEOFFROY 1809 is the type species of Dogania GRAY 1844.

Habitat: freshwater (rivers and tributaries, lakes) 
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