Tricarinate hill turtle

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Tricarinate hill turtle
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CITES Appendix I (CITES) [2]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Melanochelys
Species:
M. tricarinata
Binomial name
Melanochelys tricarinata
(Blyth, 1856)
Synonyms [3]
  • Geomyda tricarinata
    Blyth, 1856
  • Geoemyda tricarinata
    — Gray, 1870
  • Chaibassia tricarinata
    — Theobald, 1876
  • Chaibassia theobaldi
    Anderson, 1879
  • Nicoria tricarinata
    — Lydekker, 1889
  • Nicoria tricarinata var. sivalensis
    Lydekker, 1889
  • Melanochelys tricarinata
    — McDowell, 1964
  • Nicoria sivalensis
    — Młynarski, 1976
  • Melanochelys tricarinate
    Das, 1991 ( ex errore )

The tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Horne, B.D.; Praschag, P.; Choudhury, B.C.; Singh, S. (2020). "Melanochelys tricarinata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T13038A511526. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T13038A511526.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ↑ Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 234–235. doi: 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 . ISSN   1864-5755.
  4. ↑ Melanochelys tricarinata, The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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