EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Kachuga trivittata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Kachuga (Indian Roofed Turtles)
species..............Kachuga trivittata (Burmese Roofed Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Duméril and Bibron 1835 : 331
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) MNHN 7889; MNHN 7892
- Type Locality
- "Bengale" [= Bengal (in error)]
- Original name
- Emys trivittata
- Common Name
- Burmese Roofed Turtle
- Distribution
- Salween and Irawaddy river basins, Burma (Myanmar)
- Comments
- Subgenus Kachuga. Reviewed by Smith (1931) and Bourret (1941).
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