EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kachuga tentoria
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Kachuga (Indian Roofed Turtles)
species..............Kachuga tentoria (Indian Tent Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1834a : 54
- Holotype
- BMNH 1947.3.4.72
- Type Locality
- "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [= Deccan] dictâ"; restricted by Smith (1931:128) to "Dhond, Poona Dist." [India]
- Original name
- Emys tentoria
- Common Name
- Indian Tent Turtle
- Distribution
- Peninsular India and Bangladesh; recent records from Gujarea (e.g., Vyas and Patel, 1990) need confirmation
- Comments
- Subgenus Pangshura. Sympatric with Kachuga tecta in Bangladesh according to Khan (1982) and Moll (1985). Reviewed by Smith (1931; who confused tecta and tentoria), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1987) and Das (1991).
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