Malayan softshell turtle
Dogania subplana, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809
(In Thai: ตะพาบแก้มแดง, tapaab gaem daeng)
The Malayan softshell turtle (Dogania subplana) is a species of softshell turtle in the Trionychidae family. It is monotypic in its genus.
Geographic range
It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Java, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, and Sumatra.
Description
Adults may attain a carapace length of 35 cm (13.7 in). The head is large and muscular. The carapace is flat, and has straight sides. Juveniles are reddish on the sides of the neck, and have a few round black spots (ocelli) on the carapace. These markings become obscure as the turtles age.
This turtle is a medium to dark brown-green. The nose is long and tapered as with members of the family, Trionychidae. It has eight pairs of pleuralia.
Habitat
D. subplana prefers to live in the clean running water which is found in rocky streams at higher elevations.
Diet
It feeds on snails and other molluscs, crushing their shells with its powerful jaws.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Trionychidae
- Genus
- Dogania
- Species
- Dogania subplana
Common names
- German: Malayische Weichschildkröte
- English: Malayan soft-shelled turtle
- Thai: ตะพาบแก้มแดง, tapaab gaem daeng
Synonyms
- Dogania subplana, Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (TTWG) (2014)
- Trionix subplanus, Richard (1999)
- Dogania subplana, Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
- Dogania subplana, Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Trionyx subprana, Wirot Nutaphand (1990)
- Trionyx subplanus, David Alderton (1988)
- Dogania subplanus, E.S. Gaffney & P. A. Meylan (1988)
- Dogania subprana, Wirot Nutaphand (1979)
- Dogania subplana, John Roscoe Hendrickson (1966)
- Dogania guntheri, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1931)
- Dogania subplana, Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
- Trionyx pecki, Edward Bartlett (1895)
- Trionyx vertebralis, Alexander Strauch (1890)
- Trionyx subplanus, George Albert Boulenger (1889)
- Trionyx dillwynii, John Edward Gray (1873)
- Sarbieria frenata, John Edward Gray (1869)
- Potamochelys frenatus, John Edward Gray (1864)
- Trionyx guentheri, Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1864)
- Dogania guentheri, John Edward Gray (1863)
- Dogania guentheri, John Edward Gray (1862)
- Trionyx frenatus, John Edward Gray (1856)
- Dogania subplana, John Edward Gray (1855)
- Trionyx frenatus, John Edward Gray (1855)
- Dogania subplana, John Edward Gray (1844)
- Amyda subplana, Leopold Fitzinger (1843)
- Gymnopus subplanus, André Marie Constant Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1835)
- Trionyx subplanus, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1809)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN2.3)
Photos
Range Map
- Betong District, Yala
- Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary
- Kaeng Krachan District, Phetchaburi
- Kaeng Krachan National Park
- Khao Lak - Lam Ru National Park
- Khao Nan National Park
- Khao Phanom Bencha National Park
- Khao Sok National Park
- Kui Buri National Park
- Sai Yok National Park
- Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi
- Tarutao National Marine Park
- Tha Mai District, Chanthaburi
- Ton Nga-Chang Wildlife Sanctuary