Indian tent turtle

Indian tent turtle
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. tentoria
Binomial name
	Pangshura tentoria; (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms
	Emys (Pangshura) tectum Blanford, 1870; Emys tentoria Gray, 1834; Kachuga tecta circumdata Mertens, 1969; Kachuga tentoria Gray, 1834); Pangshura flaviventer Guenther, 1864; Pangshura leithii Gray, 1870; Pangshura tentoria tentoria Emys tentoria — Gray, 1834; Batagur (Pangshura) tentoria — Gray, 1856; Emys namadicus — Theobald, 1860 (nomen nudum); Clemmys tentoria — Strauch, 1862; Pangshura tentoria — Günther, 1864; Pangshura tentori — Theobald, 1868 (ex errore); Pangshura tentorium — Gray, 1869; Cuchoa tentoria — Gray, 1870; Pangshura leithii — Gray, 1870; Emys namadica — Boulenger, 1889; Kachuga intermedia — Boulenger, 1889; Kachuga tectum intermedia — Annandale, 1912; Kachuga tectum tentoria — Smith, 1931; Kachuga tecta tentoria — Mertens, Müller & Rust, 1934; Kachuga tentoria tentoria — Pritchard, 1979; Pangshura tentoria tentoria — Das, 2001; Kachuga tentnria — Artner, 2003 (ex errore); Pangshura tentoria circumdata Kachuga tecta circumdata — Mertens, 1969; Kachuga tecta circumbata — Thelwall, 1971 (ex errore); Kachuga tentoria circumdata — Pritchard, 1979; Pangshura tentoria circumdata — Das, 2001; Pangshura tentoria flaviventer Pangshura flaviventer — Günther, 1864; Cuchoa flaviventris — Gray, 1870 (ex errore); Kachuga tecta flaviventer — Mertens, 1969; Kachuga tentoria flaviventer — Moll, 1987; Pangshura tentoria flaviventer — Das, 2001;

The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria), is a species of the Geoemydidae family of turtles.

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.

References

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^ Fritz Uwe (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 240–241. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Gray, J.E. 1834 Characters of several new species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55
Phillip Q. Spinks, H. Bradley Shaffer, John B. Iverson & William P. McCord (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm

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[Fritz_2007-2] Fritz Uwe (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 240–241. ISSN 18640-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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