Kachuga kachuga

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Red-crowned Roofed Turtle
Conservation status
Critically endangered (IUCN)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Geoemydidae Genus: Kachuga Species: K. kachuga
Binomial name
Kachuga kachuga (Gray, 1831)

Red-crowned Roofed Turtle Kachuga kachuga is a species of turtle. Distribution: C Nepal, NE India, Bangladesh, (primarily in the watershed of the Ganges River) probably NW Myanmar (= Burma)

Type locality: "India"; restricted by Smith 1931:131, to "N. India."

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Kachuga_kachuga.jpg
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Kachuga_kachuga_female.jpg

[edit] References

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Kachuga kachuga. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is critically endangered and the criteria used

• Moll, E.O. 1986 Survey of the freshwater turtles of India. The genus Kachuga. [2 parts] J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83 (3): 538-552
• Gray, J. E. 1831 Illustrations of lndian Zoology: chiefly selected from the collection of Major General Hardwicke. Vol. 1, London (1830-1835)
• Gray, J. E. 1862 Notice of two new species of Batagur in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1862:264-265.
• Gray, J. E. 1863 Notice of two new species of Batagur in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 12: 74-75