Indian tent turtle

Indian tent turtle
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. tentoria
Binomial name
Pangshura tentoria (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms[1][2]
Emys (Pangshura) tectum Blanford, 1870 Emys tentoria Gray, 1834 Kachuga tecta circumdata Mertens, 1969 Kachuga tentoria Gray, 1834 Pangshura flaviventer Guenther, 1864 Pangshura leithii Gray, 1870 Pangshura tentoria tentoria Emys tentoria Gray, 1834 Batagur (Pangshura) tentoria Gray, 1856 Emys namadicus Theobald, 1860 (nomen nudum) Clemmys tentoria Strauch, 1862 Pangshura tentoria Günther, 1864 Pangshura tentori Theobald, 1868 (ex errore) Pangshura tentorium Gray, 1869 Emys (Pangshura) tectum var. intermedia Blanford, 1870 Cuchoa tentoria Gray, 1870 Pangshura leithii Gray, 1870 Emys namadica Boulenger, 1889 Kachuga intermedia Boulenger, 1889 Kachuga tectum intermedia Annandale, 1912 Kachuga tectum tentoria Smith, 1931 Kachuga tecta tentoria Mertens, Müller & Rust, 1934 Kachuga tentoria tentoria Pritchard, 1979 Pangshura tentoria tentoria Das, 2001 Kachuga tentnria Artner, 2003 (ex errore) Pangshura tentoria circumdata Kachuga tecta circumdata Mertens, 1969 Kachuga tecta circumbata Thelwall, 1971 (ex errore) Kachuga tentoria circumdata Pritchard, 1979 Pangshura tentoria circumdata Das, 2001 Pangshura tentoria flaviventer Pangshura flaviventer Günther, 1864 Cuchoa flaviventris Gray, 1870 (ex errore) Kachuga tecta flaviventer Mertens, 1969 Kachuga tentoria flaviventer Moll, 1987 Pangshura tentoria flaviventer Das, 2001

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.

Notes

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
• Phillip Q. Spinks; H. Bradley Shaffer; John B. Iverson; William P. McCord (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805. 

External links

• http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm

Turtle family Geoemydidae
Genus	Species of the family Geoemydidae
Batagur	Burmese roofed turtle Northern river terrapin Painted terrapin Red-crowned roofed turtle Southern river terrapin Three-striped roofed turtle
Cuora	Amboina box turtle Bourret's box turtle Indochinese box turtle McCord's box turtle Keeled box turtle Pan's box turtle Southern Vietnamese box turtle Chinese three-striped box turtle Yellow-headed box turtle Yellow-margined box turtle Yunnan box turtle Zhou's box turtle
Cyclemys	Asian leaf turtle Assam leaf turtle Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle Enigmatic leaf turtle Myanmar brown leaf turtle Oldham's leaf turtle Western black-bridged leaf turtle
Geoclemys	Black pond turtle
Geoemyda	Black-breasted leaf turtle Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
Hardella	Brahminy river turtle
Heosemys	Arakan forest turtle Giant Asian pond turtle Spiny turtle Yellow-headed temple turtle
Leucocephalon	Sulawesi forest turtle
Malayemys	Malayan snail-eating turtle Mekong snail-eating turtle
Mauremys	Balkan pond turtle Caspian turtle Chinese pond turtle Chinese stripe-necked turtle Japanese pond turtle Red-necked pond turtle Spanish pond turtle Vietnamese pond turtle Yellow pond turtle
Melanochelys	Indian black turtle Tricarinate hill turtle
Morenia	Burmese eyed turtle Indian eyed turtle
Notochelys	Malayan flat-shelled turtle
Orlitia	Malaysian giant turtle
Pangshura	Assam roofed turtle Brown roofed turtle Indian roofed turtle Indian tent turtle
Rhinoclemmys	Black river turtle Brown wood turtle Colombian wood turtle Furrowed wood turtle Large-nosed wood turtle Maracaibo wood turtle Mexican spotted wood turtle Painted wood turtle Spot-legged turtle
Sacalia	Beal's eyed turtle Four-eyed turtle
Siebenrockiella	Black marsh turtle Philippine forest turtle
Vijayachelys	Cane turtle
Phylogenetic arrangement based on turtles of the world 2011 update: annotated checklist.