EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Melanochelys tricarinata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Melanochelys (Indian Black Turtles)
species..............Melanochelys tricarinata (Tricarinate Hill Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Blyth 1856 : 714
- Holotype
- ZSI 816 according to Das pers. comm.
- Type Locality
- Chaibasa District, Chota Nagpur [Bihar, India]
- Original name
- Geoemyda tricarinata
- Common Name
- Tricarinate Hill Turtle
- Distribution
- Ganges-Brahmaputra and adjacent river basins in eastern India, Bangladesh, and (possibly) Nepal
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Geoemyda tricarinata), Tikader and Sharma (1985), and Das (1991).
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