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Original
Description |
Gray 1834a : 54 |
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Type
Locality |
"in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [= Deccan] dictâ"; restricted by Smith (1931:128) to "Dhond, Poona Dist." [India] |
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Holotype |
BMNH 1947.3.4.72 |
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Original name |
Emys tentoria |
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Common
name |
Indian Tent Turtle |
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Distribution |
Peninsular India and Bangladesh; recent records from Gujarea (e.g., Vyas and Patel, 1990) need confirmation |
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Comments |
Subgenus Pangshura. Sympatric with Kachuga tecta in Bangladesh according to Khan (1982) and Moll (1985). Reviewed by Smith (1931; who confused tecta and tentoria), Tikader and Sharma (1985), Moll (1987) and Das (1991). |
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