Chitra (turtle)

Chitra
	Skeleton of a Chitra chitra shell at the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Trionychidae
Subfamily:	Trionychinae
Genus:	Chitra ; Gray , 1844

Chitra is a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae .

Species [ edit ]

Chitra chitra Nutaphand , 1986 ? Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle ^[1]
- C. c. chitra Nutaphand, 1986 ? Siamese narrow-headed softshell turtle ^[1]
- C. c. javanensis McCord & Pritchard , 2003 ? Javanese narrow-headed softshell turtle ^[1]
Chitra indica ( Gray , 1830) ? Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle ^[1]
Chitra vandijki McCord & Pritchard, 2003 ? Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle ^[1]

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Chitra .

Gray JE (1844). Catalogue of the Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Amphisbænians, in the Collection of the British Museum . London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). viii + 80 pp. ( Chitra , new genus, p. 49).
Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley (2010-12-14). "Turtles of the World 2010 Update: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17 . Retrieved 2010-12-15 .

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