Indian tent turtle
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| Indian tent turtle | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Family: | Geoemydidae |
| Genus: | Pangshura |
| Species: | P. tentoria |
| Binomial name | |
| Pangshura tentoria (Gray, 1834) |
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The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria), is a species of the Geoemydidae family of turtles.
[edit] 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] References
- ^ a b Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Pangshura tentoria". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/46577. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- 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". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805. http://www.eve.ucdavis.edu/shafferlab/pubs/SpinksMolPhyloEvo2004.pdf.
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