Kachuga tentoria

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Indian Tent Turtle
Conservation status
Least concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Geoemydidae Genus: Kachuga Species: K. tentoria
Binomial name
Kachuga tentoria (Gray, 1834)

Indian Tent Turtle Kachuga tentoria is a species of turtle.

Distribution

Peninsular India , Bangladesh

tentoria: India

circumdata: India

flaviventer: Bangladesh, India

Type locality: "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [=Deccan] dicta"; restricted by Smith 1931:128, to "Dhond, Poona Dist.," India.

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database
• http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm

[edit] References

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Kachuga tentoria. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.

• Gray, J.E. 1834 Characters of several new species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55
• 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