Indian tent turtle
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P. tentoria
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Pangshura tentoria (Gray, 1834)
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The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria) is a species of the Geoemydidae family of turtles found in India and Bangladesh.
Distribution
Peninsular India, Bangladesh
- tentoria: Mahanadi, Godavari and Krishna river drainages in India
- circumdata: upper and central Ganges river drainage in India
- flaviventer: lower Ganges drainage in Bangladesh and India
Type locality: "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [=Deccan] dicta"; restricted by Smith 1931:128, to "Dhond, Poona Dist.," India.
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References
- Gray, J.E. 1834 Characters of several new species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55
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