Kachuga smithii

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iBrown-roofed Turtle
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Kachuga
Species: K. smithii
Binomial name
Kachuga smithii
(Gray, 1863)

Brown-roofed Turtle Kachuga smithii is a species of turtle. Distribution:

  • Pakistan, NW India (Indus River system), Bangladesh (rarely in the Ganges River)

smithii: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan pallidipes: India, Nepal


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[edit] References

  • Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Kachuga smithii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 05 May 2006.
  • Auffenberg, Walter;Khan, Naeem Ahmed 1991 Studies of Pakistan reptiles: Notes on Kachuga smithi Hamadryad 16: 25-29
  • Gray, J.E. 1863 Notice of a new species of Batagur. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 253.
  • Spinks, Phillip Q.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Iverson, John B; McCord, William P. 2004 Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(1):164-182