Dogania subplana (Malayan Softshell Turtle)
The common name of this Softshelled Turtle in English is commonly called Malayan Softshell Turtle, Malayan soft-shelled turtle and Thai name called ตะพาบแก้มแดง (Dta-paap Kam Daeng), ปลาฝาดำ (Pla Faa Dam).
ตะพาบแก้มแดง : Dogania subplana (Geoffroy Saint-hilaire, 1809)
Dogania subplana is a species of the Malayan Soft-shelled Turtle Genus (Dogania) within the Softshell Turtle Family (Trionychidae), Superfamily Trionychoidea, in the Suborder Cryptodira, in the Turtles Order (Testudines), in the Reptile Class (Reptilia), in the Chordate Phylum (Chordata) in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia).
Geographic Range
Dogania subplana has been recorded from southern Myanmar (Mergui Islands), western and southern Thailand (including Phuket), Malaysia (Peninsular including Pulau Tioman, Sarawak and Sabah), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Singkep, Natuna Besar), Singapore, and the Philippines (Palawan, Luzon, Mindoro, and Mindanao).
Occurrence in Brunei Darussalam is likely but needs verification.
Habitat and Ecology
Dogania subplana usually occurs in small clear-water streams in forested areas, including secondary forest. It is also present in semi urban areas, rice fields, and abandoned mining ponds.
Reproduction
oviparous.
Synonyms
- Trionyx subplanus Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1809)
- Gymnopus subplanus André Marie Constant Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1835)
- Amyda subplana Leopold Fitzinger (1843)
- Dogania subplana John Edward Gray (1844)
- Trionyx frenatus John Edward Gray (1855)
- Dogania subplana John Edward Gray (1855)
- Trionyx frenatus John Edward Gray (1856)
- Dogania guentheri John Edward Gray (1862)
- Dogania guentheri John Edward Gray (1863)
- Trionyx guentheri Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1864)
- Potamochelys frenatus John Edward Gray (1864)
- Sarbieria frenata John Edward Gray (1869)
- Trionyx dillwynii John Edward Gray (1873)
- Trionyx subplanus George Albert Boulenger (1889)
- Trionyx vertebralis Alexander Strauch (1890)
- Trionyx pecki Edward Bartlett (1895)
- Dogania subplana Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
- Dogania guntheri Malcolm Arthur Smith (1931)
- Dogania subplana John Roscoe Hendrickson (1966)
- Dogania subprana Wirot Nutaphand (1979)
- Dogania subplanus E.S. Gaffney & P. A. Meylan (1988)
- Trionyx subplanus David Alderton (1988)
- Trionyx subprana Wirot Nutaphand (1990)
- Dogania subplana Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Dogania subplana Merel J. Cox et al. (1998)
- Trionix subplanus Richard (1999)
- Dogania subplana Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (TTWG) (2014)