Tomistoma schlegelii (Muller, 1838)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 244

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968129

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Tomistoma schlegelii
status

 

Tomistoma schlegelii View in CoL (M̧ller, 1838)— Non-native; Introduced.

False Gharial

Singapore records.

Tomistoma schlegeli —Sharma, 1973: 233.—L.M. Chou & Lam, 1989: 92.

Tomistoma schlegelii —K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 56.—K.P. Lim & Subharaj, 1991b: 5 (Pasir Ris canal).—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 43, 151.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 151.—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010: 35.—Pocklington, 2019: 8.

“Baby crocodile”— Anonymous, 1991a: 2 (Pasir Ris).

Remarks. Although often rumoured to occur in Singapore, primarily through the escape or release of farmed individuals (Sharma 1973; Pocklington 2021), only one record of T. schlegelii in Singapore is known. The record is of a juvenile found in Pasir Ris canal believed to be released by animal dealers evading a check by Singapore Customs at sea on 14 May 1991 ( Anonymous 1991a; Lim & Subharaj 1991). Tomistoma schlegelii occurs naturally in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo ( Bezuijen et al. 2010).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Order Testudines Batsch, 1788 (19 species)

Family Carettochelyidae Boulenger, 1887 (1 species)

Genus Carettochelys Ramsay, 1886 (1 species)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Crocodylia

Family

Crocodylidae

Genus

Tomistoma

Loc

Tomistoma schlegelii

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Tomistoma schlegeli

Chou, L. M. & Lam, T. J. 1989: 92
1989
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