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Species of turtle
Wattle-necked softshell turtle
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Class:
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Reptilia
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Order:
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Testudines
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Suborder:
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Cryptodira
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Family:
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Trionychidae
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Subfamily:
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Trionychinae
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Genus:
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Palea
Meylan
, 1987
[3]
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Species:
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P. steindachneri
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Binomial name
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Palea steindachneri
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Synonyms
[4]
[5]
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- Aspidonectes californiana
Rivers
, 1889
(nomen suppressum)
- Pelodiscus californianus
?
Baur
, 1893
- Aspidonectes californiensis
[sic]
O.P. Hay
, 1904
(
ex errore
)
- Trionyx steindachneri
Siebenrock, 1906
(
nomen conservandum
)
- Amyda steindachneri
?
K.P. Schmidt
, 1927
- Palea steindachneri
? Meylan, 1987
- Trionix steindachneri
?
Richard
, 1999
- Pelodiscus steindachneri
?
Pritchard
, 2001
- Palea steindachneri
?
Ziegler
, 2002
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The
wattle-necked softshell turtle
(
Palea steindachneri
), also
commonly
known as
Steindachner's soft-shelled turtle
,
[6]
is an
endangered
Asian
species
of
softshell turtle
in the
family
Trionychidae
. The species is the
only member
of the
genus
Palea
.
[3]
Description
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P. steindachneri
exhibits sexual dimorphism. Females of this freshwater turtle reach up to 44.5 cm (17.5 in) in straight
carapace
length, while males only reach up to 36 cm (14 in). However, males have a longer tail than the females.
[7]
Etymology
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The
specific name
,
steindachneri
, is in honor of
Austrian
herpetologist
Franz Steindachner
.
[6]
Geographic range
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P. steindachneri
is native to southeastern
China
(
Guangdong
,
Guangxi
,
Guizhou
,
Hainan
,
Yunnan
),
Laos
, and
Vietnam
, but has also been
introduced
to
Hawaii
and
Mauritius
.
[3]
Threats
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P. steindachneri
is endangered by
poaching
for human consumption. Although pressure on the wild population continues, several thousand are hatched and raised each year on
turtle farms
in China and
Vietnam
for food and
traditional medicine
.
[8]
[9]
References
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]
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Fong, J.; Hoang, H.; Li, P.; McCormack, T.; Rao, D.-Q.; Timmins, R.J.; Wang, L. (2021).
"
Palea steindachneri
"
.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
.
2021
: e.T15918A794203.
doi
:
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T15918A794203.en
. Retrieved
19 November
2021
.
- ^
"Appendices | CITES"
.
cites.org
. Retrieved
2022-01-14
.
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a
b
c
d
Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Bour, Roger (2011-12-31).
"Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status"
(PDF)
.
Chelonian Research Monographs
.
5
.
Archived
(PDF)
from the original on 2012-01-31.
- ^
Fritz, Uwe; Hava?, Peter (2007).
"Checklist of Chelonians of the World"
(PDF)
.
Vertebrate Zoology
.
57
(2). Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2011-05-01.
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Species
Palea steindachneri
at
The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
- ^
a
b
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011)
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN
978-1-4214-0135-5
. (
Palea steindachneri
, p. 252).
- ^
Ernst CH
;
Lovich JE
(2009).
Turtles of the United States and Canada
(2 ed.). p. 636.
ISBN
978-0-8018-9121-2
.
- ^
Dharmananda, Subhuti,
Endangered species issues affecting turtles and tortoises in Chinese medicine
, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon
- ^
"Raising trionychid turtles in Yen Bai"
,
Vietnam in Photos
, 2013-02-17
Further reading
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- Meylan PA
(1987). "The Phylogenetic Relationships of Soft-shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)".
Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist.
186
(1): 1-100. (
Palea
, new genus, p. 94).
- Siebenrock F
(1906). "
Zur Kenntnis der Schildkrotenfauna der Insel Hainan
".
Zoologischer Anzeiger
30
: 578-586. (
Trionyx steindachneri
, new species, pp. 579?581). (in German).