Indian Softshell Turtle

The Indian softshell turtle, or Ganges softshell turtle, is found in South Asian rivers such as the Ganges, Indus and Mahanadi. It feeds mostly on fish, amphibians, carrion and other animal matter, but also takes aquatic plants. It is olive above, the back of the young vermiculated with fine black lines but without eye-like spots, and the head has a black streak from between the eyes to the nape. The lower parts are yellowish (Wikipedia, general species account).

It occurs in the Indus, Ganges, Meghna, Brahmaputra, Jamuna, Narmada and Mahanadi basins and most of their tributaries, in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, southern Nepal and Pakistan. The skin on the back of young animals has longitudinal ridges of small tubercles. The sources opened give no size or breeding information, so none is stated.