Tricarinate hill turtle |
Conservation status |
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Scientific classification |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Chordata |
Class: |
Reptilia |
Order: |
Testudines |
Family: |
Geoemydidae |
Genus: |
Melanochelys |
Species: |
M. tricarinata |
Binomial name |
Melanochelys tricarinata (Blyth, 1856) |
Synonyms[2] |
- Geomyda tricarinata Blyth, 1856
- Geoemyda tricarinata Gray, 1870
- Chaibassia tricarinata Theobald, 1876
- Chaibassia theobaldi Anderson, 1879
- Nicoria tricarinata Lydekker, 1889
- Nicoria tricarinata var. sivalensis Lydekker, 1889
- Melanochelys tricarinata McDowell, 1964
- Nicoria sivalensis Młynarski, 1976
- Melanochelys tricarinate Das, 1991 (ex errore)
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Tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in north-eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.[3]
References
- ↑ Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). Melanochelys tricarinata. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. The database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used.
- ↑ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology 57 (2): 234–235. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ↑ Melanochelys tricarinata, The Reptile Database
Bibliography
- Blyth, E. (1855) Report on the collections presented by Capt. Berdmore and Mr. Theobald. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 24(7):713-720.
- Busack, Stephen D. (1994) Melanochelys tricarinata (Tricarinate hill turtle). India: Uttar Pradesh Herpetological Review 25(1):32.
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| Cheloniinae |
- Chelonia
- Eretmochelys
- Natator
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