Brown roofed turtle

Brown roofed turtle
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. smithii
Binomial name
Pangshura smithii
Synonyms[1][2]
Batagur smithii Gray, 1863 Pangshura smithii (Gray, 1863) Pangshura smithii smithii Batagur smithii Gray, 1863 Pangshura smithii Günther, 1864 Clemmys smithii Strauch, 1865 Pangshura smith Theobald, 1868 (ex errore) Emia smithii Gray, 1870 Kachuga smithii Boulenger, 1889 Kachuga smithi Smith, 1931 (ex errore) Kachuga amithii Rudloff, 1974 (ex errore) Kachuga smithi smithi Moll, 1987 Kachuga smithii smithii Moll, 1987 Pangshura smithii smithii Das, 2001 Pngshura smithii Das, 2001 Pangshura smithi Gurley, 2003 Pangshura smithi smithi Joseph-Ouni, 2004 Pangshura smithii pallidipes Kachuga smithii pallidipes Moll, 1987 Kachuga smithi pallidipes van Dijk, 2000 Pangshura smithii pallidipes Das, 2001 Pangshura smithi pallidipes Joseph-Ouni, 2004

Brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii) , the is a species of the Geoemydidae family of turtles found in South Asia.

Description

Carapace much depressed, feebly keeled. Nuchal shield small, trapezoidal, broadest posteriorly; first vertebral with sinuous lateral borders, usually a little narrower in front than behind; second vertebral shortest, broader than long, usually with straight or slightly convex posterior border; third vertebral considerably longer than broad, subquadrangular, posterior border straight or slightly convex, fourth vertebral longest, tapering anteriorly and forming a narrow suture with the third; fifth vertebral much broader than the others. Plastron feebly angulated laterally, large; front lobe rounded, hind lobe angularly notched and as long as or a little shorter than the width of the bridge; the longest median suture is that between the abdominals, which about equals the length of the front lobe; gulars usually shorter than the suture between the humerals, their suture with the latter shields forming a right angle; inguinal large, axillary smaller. Head moderate; snout short, obtuse, feebly prominent; jaws with denticulated edge, upper not notched mesially; alveolar surface of upper jaw broad, the median ridge nearer the inner than the outer border; bony choanae between the orbits; the width of the lower jaw at the symphysis is less than the diameter of the orbit. Fore limbs with large transverse scales. Pale olive-brown above; dorsal keel usually blackish; plastral shields and lower surface of marginals dark brown, bordered with yellow. Length of shell 8.5 inches.^[3]

Races

• smithii: Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra river drainages in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
• pallidipes: northern tributaries of the Ganges in India and Nepal

References

 This article incorporates text from Reptilia and Batrachia, Volume 10, by George Albert Boulenger, a publication from 1890 now in the public domain in the United States.

• 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.
• Phillip Q. Spinks, H. Bradley Shaffer, John B. Iverson & William P. McCord (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805. 

External links

• Kachuga smithii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Kachuga_smithi.jpg

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