EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kachuga dhongoka
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Kachuga (Indian Roofed Turtles)
species..............Kachuga dhongoka (Three-striped Roofed Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1835 "1831-1835" : Plate 60
- Holotype
- Not located
- Type Locality
- Not stated; restricted by Smith (1931:130) to "N. India"
- Original name
- Emys dhongoka
- Common Name
- Three-striped Roofed Turtle
- Distribution
- Ganges-Brahmaputra river drainage in Nepal, northern India, and Bangladesh
- Comments
- Subgenus Kachuga. Reviewed by Smith (1931), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1986), and Das (1991).
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