Indian tent turtle

Indian tent turtle
	P. t. tentoria; Chambal River, Uttar Pradesh, India
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. tentoria
Binomial name
	Pangshura tentoria; (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms
	Pangshura tentoria tentoria Emys tentoria; Gray, 1834; Batagur (Pangshura) tentoria; — Gray, 1856; ? Emys namadicus; Theobald, 1860 (nomen nudum); Clemmys tentoria; — Strauch, 1862; Pangshura tentoria; — Günther, 1864; Pangshura tentori [sic]; Theobald, 1868 ( ex errore); Pangshura tentorium; — Gray, 1869; Emys (Pangshura) tectum var. intermedia; Blanford, 1870; Cuchoa tentoria; — Gray, 1870; Pangshura leithii; Gray, 1870; ? Emys namadica; — Boulenger, 1889; Kachuga intermedia; — Boulenger, 1889; Kachuga tectum intermedia; — Annandale, 1912; Kachuga tectum tentoria; — M.A. Smith, 1931; Kachuga tecta tentoria; — Mertens, L. Müller & Rust, 1934; Kachuga tentoria tentoria; — Pritchard, 1979; Pangshura tentoria tentoria; — Das, 2001; Kachuga tentnria [sic]; Artner, 2003 (ex errore); Pangshura tentoria circumdata Kachuga tecta circumdata; Mertens, 1969; Kachuga tecta circumbata [sic]; Thelwall, 1971 (ex errore); Kachuga tentoria circumdata; — Pritchard, 1979; Pangshura tentoria circumdata; — Das, 2001; Pangshura tentoria flaviventer Pangshura flaviventer; Günther, 1864; Cuchoa flaviventris [sic]; Gray, 1870 (ex errore); Kachuga tecta flaviventer; — Mertens, 1969; Kachuga tentoria flaviventer; — Moll, 1987; Pangshura tentoria flaviventer; — Das, 2001;

The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is found in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Description

P. tentoria is a small species of turtle, growing to a maximum straight carapace length of 27 cm (11 in).^[1]^[4]

Subspecies

Three

nominotypical subspecies.^[5]

Pangshura tentoria tentoria (Gray, 1834)
Pangshura tentoria circumdata (Mertens, 1969)
Pangshura tentoria flaviventer (Günther, 1864)

trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus

other than Pangshura.

Geographic range

P. tentoria is found in
asl.^[1]

P. t. tentoria –
endemic
)

P. t. circumdata – upper and central Ganges river drainage in India and southern Nepal

P. t. flaviventer – lower Ganges drainage in Bangladesh, India, and southern Nepal

Type locality: "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [=Deccan] dicta "; restricted by
M.A. Smith 1931: 128, to "Dhond, Poona Dist.", India.^[5]

Habitat

P. tentoria is primarily a
riverine turtle that occurs in both small and large rivers. They bask on rocks and tree snags. Females are largely herbivores while males and juveniles are more carnivorous.^[1]

Reproduction

P. tentoria is
oviparous.^[1]^[5]

References

^
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T46577A3008697.en
. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

ISSN 1864-5755
. (Pangshura tentoria, pp. 240–241).

ISBN 0-88359-056-5
. (Pangshura tentoria, p. 130).

^ ^a ^b ^c Pangshura tentoria at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

Gray JE (1834). "Characters of several New Species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53–55. (Emys tentoria, new species, p. 54). (in English and Latin).

Günther ACLG. (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Pangshura tentoria, pp. 34–35 + Plate IV, figures C, C').

Smith MA (1931). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.—Loricata, Testudines. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxviii + 185 pp. + Plates I-II. (Kachuga tectum tentoria, pp. 128–129).

External links

Spinks, Phillip Q.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Iverson, John B.; McCord, William P. (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae" (PDF). PMID 15186805. Archived from the original
(PDF) on 11 June 2010.

http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm

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Family Geoemydidae

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Subclass: Anapsida

Order:
Testudines

Suborder: Cryptodira

Superfamily: Testudinoidea

Family: Geoemydidae

Genera
Species of the family Geoemydidae
†Banhxeochelys

†Banhxeochelys trani

Batagur

Burmese roofed turtle

Northern river terrapin

Painted terrapin

Red-crowned roofed turtle

Southern river terrapin

Three-striped roofed turtle

Cuora

Amboina box turtle

Bourret's box turtle

Indochinese box turtle

McCord's box turtle

Keeled box turtle

Pan's box turtle

Southern Vietnamese box turtle

Golden coin turtle

Vietnamese three-striped box turtle

Yellow-headed box turtle

Chinese box turtle

Yunnan box turtle

Zhou's box turtle

Cyclemys

Asian leaf turtle

Assam leaf turtle

Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle

Enigmatic leaf turtle

Myanmar brown leaf turtle

Oldham's leaf turtle

Western black-bridged leaf turtle

†Echmatemys

†Echmatemys septaria

†Echmatemys stevensoniana

†Echmatemys wyomingensis

Geoclemys

Black pond turtle

Geoemyda

Black-breasted leaf turtle

Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle

Hardella

Brahminy river turtle

Heosemys

Arakan forest turtle

Giant Asian pond turtle

Spiny turtle

Yellow-headed temple turtle

Leucocephalon

Sulawesi forest turtle

Malayemys

Malayan snail-eating turtle

Mekong snail-eating turtle

Khorat snail-eating turtle

Mauremys

Balkan pond turtle

Caspian turtle

Chinese pond turtle

Chinese stripe-necked turtle

Japanese pond turtle

Red-necked pond turtle

Spanish pond turtle

Vietnamese pond turtle

Yellow pond turtle

Melanochelys

Indian black turtle

Tricarinate hill turtle

Morenia

Burmese eyed turtle

Indian eyed turtle

Notochelys

Malayan flat-shelled turtle

Orlitia

Malaysian giant turtle

Pangshura

Assam roofed turtle

Brown roofed turtle

Indian roofed turtle

Indian tent turtle

†Pangshura tatrotia

Rhinoclemmys

Black wood turtle

Brown wood turtle

Colombian wood turtle

Furrowed wood turtle

Large-nosed wood turtle

Maracaibo wood turtle

Mexican spotted wood turtle

Painted wood turtle

Spot-legged wood turtle

†Rhinoclemmys panamaensis

Sacalia

Beale's eyed turtle

Four-eyed turtle

Siebenrockiella

Black marsh turtle

Philippine forest turtle

Vijayachelys

Cane turtle

Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=Extinct.

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[IUCN-1] 
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T46577A3008697.en
. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[CITES-2] "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

[Fritz_2007-3] ISSN 1864-5755
. (Pangshura tentoria, pp. 240–241).

[Das_2002-4] ISBN 0-88359-056-5
. (Pangshura tentoria, p. 130).

[RDB-5] Pangshura tentoria at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

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