Kachuga sylhetensis

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Assam Roofed Turtle
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Geoemydidae Genus: Kachuga Species: K. sylhetensis
Binomial name
Kachuga sylhetensis (Jerdon, 1870)

Assam Roofed Turtle Kachuga sylhetensis is a species of turtle found in Assam and parts of eastern Bangladesh. Type locality: Sylhet River, Khasi Hills, India.

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Kachuga_sylhetensis.JPG

[edit] References

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Kachuga sylhetensis. 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 endangered and the criteria used

• Choudhury, Anwaruddin 1993 New locality records for Kachuga sylhetensis (Jerdon, 1870) Hamadryad 18: 43-45
• Das, Indraneil 1997 Kachuga sylhetensis recorded from northern Bengal, with notes on turtles of Gorumara National Park, Eastern India Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2 (4): 616-617
• Jerdon,T.C. 1870 Notes on Indian Herpetology. P. Asiatic Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85
• Praschag,P. & Fachbach,G. 2001 Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Assam-Dachschildkröte, Kachuga sylhetensis (JERDON 1870) (Reptilia: Testudines: Bataguridae). Salamandra 37 (3): 129-148