Tricarinate hill turtle

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Tricarinate hill turtle
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
    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]

References

  1. . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ISSN 1864-5755
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  4. ^ Melanochelys tricarinata, The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Blyth E (1856). "Report on the collections presented by Capt. Berdmore and Mr. Theobald". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 24 (7): 713–720. (Geomyda tricarinata, new species, p. 714).
  • Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Nicoria tricarinata, p. 28).
  • Busack, Stephen D. (1994). "Melanochelys tricarinata (Tricarinate hill turtle). India: Uttar Pradesh". Herpetological Review 25 (1): 32.
  • . (Melanochelys tricarinata, p. 127).
  • 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. (Geoemyda tricarinata, pp. 95–96 + Plate II, figure 1).