EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kachuga tecta
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Kachuga (Indian Roofed Turtles)
species..............Kachuga tecta (Indian Roofed Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 23
- Holotype
- Not located, although presumably in the BMNH since two specimens were illustrated in Gray 1831 "1830-35": Plate 72 as EMYS TECTUM).
- Type Locality
- "India"
- Original name
- Emys tecta
- Common Name
- Indian Roofed Turtle
- Distribution
- Indus to Narmada and Indus-Brahmaputra river basins of Pakistan, northern India, (probably) Nepal, and Bangladesh; also in the Mahanadi basin according to Das (1991)
- Comments
- Subgenus Pangshura. See Comment under K. tentoria. Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Kachuga tectum), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1987), and Das (1991).
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