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Original
Description |
Gray 1831b : 23 |
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Type
Locality |
"India" |
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Holotype |
Not located, although presumably in the BMNH since two specimens were illustrated in Gray 1831 "1830-35": Plate 72 as EMYS TECTUM). |
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Original name |
Emys tecta |
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Common
name |
Indian Roofed Turtle |
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Distribution |
Indus to Narmada and Indus-Brahmaputra river basins of Pakistan, northern India, (probably) Nepal, and Bangladesh; also in the Mahanadi basin according to Das (1991) |
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Comments |
Subgenus Pangshura. See Comment under K. tentoria. Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Kachuga tectum), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1987), and Das (1991). |
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