Three-striped roofed turtle

Three-striped roofed turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Batagur[1]
Species: B. dhongoka
Binomial name
Batagur dhongoka
(Gray, 1832)[1][2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Emys dhongoka Gray, 1832
  • Emys duvaucelii Duméril & Bibron, 1835
  • Emys duvaucellii Gray, 1844 (ex errore)
  • Batagur (Kachuga) dhongoka Gray, 1856
  • Clemmys dhongoka Strauch, 1862
  • Kachuga hardwickii Gray, 1869
  • Dhongoka hardwickii Gray, 1870
  • Batagur dhougoka Gray, 1873 (ex errore)
  • Dhougoka hardwickii Gray, 1873
  • Emys duvancellii Gray, 1873 (ex errore)
  • Batagur durandi Lydekker, 1885
  • Kachuga dhongoka Boulenger, 1889
  • Batagur duvaucelii Anderson, 1879
  • Emys duvauceli Smith, 1931 (ex errore)
  • Kachuga dhongoca Tikader & Sharma, 1985 (ex errore)
  • Kachuga drongoka Moll, 1986 (ex errore)

The three-striped roofed turtle (Batagur dhongoka) is a species of turtle in the genus Batagur.

Distribution

This three-striped roofed turtle is found in Bangladesh, India (Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal) and possibly in Nepal.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rhodin 2011, p. 000.187
  2. 1 2 3 Batagur dhongoka from the IUCN Red list
  3. Fritz 2007, p. 225
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