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Original
Description |
Gray 1831 "1831-1835" : Plate 74 |
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Type
Locality |
"India"; restricted by Smith (1931:131) to "N. India." |
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Holotype |
Not located (presumably originally in the BMNH, since illustrated in the original description). |
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Original name |
Emys kachuga |
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Common
name |
Red-crowned Roofed Turtle |
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Distribution |
Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin in northern India, southern Nepal, and Bangladesh; records from the Godavari and Kristna river basins on the Indian peninsula are unverified |
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Comments |
Subgenus Kachuga. Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1986), and Das (1991). |
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