Aspideretes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aspideretes is a genus of soft-shelled turtles (family Trionychidae). It has been found to be so closely related to the Burmese Peacock Softshell (Nilssonia formosa) that it is probably better united with this species under Nilssonia, the older name. They only differ in having two separate neural plates between the first pleural scale pair of the bony carapace, while these neural plates are fused into one in N. formosa.