EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kachuga kachuga
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Kachuga (Indian Roofed Turtles)
species..............Kachuga kachuga (Red-crowned Roofed Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831 "1831-1835" : Plate 74
- Holotype
- Not located (presumably originally in the BMNH, since illustrated in the original description).
- Type Locality
- "India"; restricted by Smith (1931:131) to "N. India."
- Original name
- Emys kachuga
- Common Name
- Red-crowned Roofed Turtle
- Distribution
- Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin in northern India, southern Nepal, and Bangladesh; records from the Godavari and Kristna river basins on the Indian peninsula are unverified
- Comments
- Subgenus Kachuga. Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1986), and Das (1991).
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