Tricarinate hill turtle

The Tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.[3]

Tricarinate hill turtle
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Geoemydidae
Genus: Melanochelys
Species:
M. tricarinata
Binomial name
Melanochelys tricarinata
(Blyth, 1856)
Synonyms[2]
  • Geomyda tricarinata
    Blyth, 1856
  • Geoemyda tricarinata
    — Gray, 1870
  • Chaibassia tricarinata
    — Theobald, 1876
  • Chaibassia theobaldi
    Anderson, 1879
  • Nicoria tricarinata
    — Lydekker, 1889
  • Nicoria tricarinata var. sivalensis
    Lydekker, 1889
  • Melanochelys tricarinata
    — McDowell, 1964
  • Nicoria sivalensis
    — Młynarski, 1976
  • Melanochelys tricarinate
    Das, 1991 (ex errore)

References
  1. Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. (2000). "Melanochelys tricarinata". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T13038A97373241. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T13038A3406791.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018. The database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used.
  2. Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 234–235. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. Melanochelys tricarinata, The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading
  • Blyth E (1856). "Report on the collections presented by Capt. Berdmore and Mr. Theobald". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 24 (7): 713–720. (Geomyda tricarinata, new species, p. 714).
  • Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Nicoria tricarinata, p. 28).
  • Busack, Stephen D. (1994). "Melanochelys tricarinata (Tricarinate hill turtle). India: Uttar Pradesh". Herpetological Review 25 (1): 32.
  • Das I (2002). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-056-5. (Melanochelys tricarinata, p. 127).
  • Smith MA (1931). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.—Loricata, Testudines. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxviii + 185 pp. + Plates I-II. (Geoemyda tricarinata, pp. 95–96 + Plate II, figure 1).


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