Animalia > Chordata > Testudines > Trionychidae > Nilssonia > Nilssonia formosa

Nilssonia formosa (Burmese Soft-shelled Turtle; Burmese peacock softshell turtle)

Synonyms: Trionys peguensis; Trionyx formosus; Trionyx grayii; Trionyx peguensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Burmese peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia formosa) is a species of softshell turtle in the Trionychidae family. It is one of five species in the genus Nilssonia.
View Wikipedia Record: Nilssonia formosa

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Nilssonia formosa

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Irrawaddy dry forests Myanmar Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests Myanmar Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Myanmar coastal rain forests Myanmar, Bangladesh Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam Yes

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0