Tricarinate hill turtle

Tricarinate hill turtle
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
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)

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

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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