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Pelodiscus huike LIU, FU, MA, ZHOU, BLANCK, ZHOU, XIAO & MO, 2024

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Higher TaxaTrionychidae (Trionychinae), Trionychoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Chinese gray softshell turtle 
SynonymPelodiscus huike LIU, FU, MA, ZHOU, BLANCK, ZHOU, XIAO & MO 2024
Pelodiscus huike — TTWG 2025 
DistributionChina (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan)

Type locality: Yudai River, Tongdao County, Hunan Province, China (26°09¢ N 109°46’ E),  
Reproduction 
TypesLectotype. JNU 20210001, adult male (Jinan University, Guangzhou), previously designated as neotype of P. axenaria. leg. Shiping Gong, 25 May 2021; European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) accession numbers for DNA sequences: cyt b—OW235725, P26S4—OW235773, R35—OW237758 and OW237759 (two alleles), TB01—OW235754 and OW235755 (two alleles). See Liu et al. 2024 for details. 
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CommentDistribution: see map in TTWG 2025. 
EtymologyThe name “huike” is the romanization of huike bie, derived from the local (Tongdao, Hunan) name of the species (huike bie = Chinese gray softshell turtle) that alludes to its gray and dark carapace compared with Pelodiscus sinensis.  
References
  • Liu, J. Y., Fu, W., Ma, Y. H., Zhou, T., Blanck, T., Zhou, G. J., ... & Mo, X. Y. 2024. Shedding Light into the Confusing History of Pelodiscus axenaria (Zhou, Zhang et Fang, 1991), Clarifying and Correcting Its Taxonomic Position within the P. axenaria Complex with the Description of Yet Another Pelodiscus Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 31(6), 337-350 - 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
 
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