Indian tent turtle

Indian tent turtle
P. t. tentoria Chambal River, Uttar Pradesh, India
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. tentoria
Binomial name
Pangshura tentoria (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms[1][3]
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 [sic] 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 — M.A. Smith, 1931 Kachuga tecta tentoria — Mertens, L. Müller & , 1934 Kachuga tentoria tentoria — Pritchard, 1979 Pangshura tentoria tentoria — Das, 2001 Kachuga tentnria [sic] Artner, 2003 (ex errore) Kachuga tecta circumdata Mertens, 1969 Kachuga tecta circumbata [sic] Thelwall, 1971 (ex errore) Kachuga tentoria circumdata — Pritchard, 1979 Pangshura tentoria circumdata — Das, 2001 Pangshura flaviventer Günther, 1864 Cuchoa flaviventris [sic] Gray, 1870 (ex errore) Kachuga tecta flaviventer — Mertens, 1969 Kachuga tentoria flaviventer — , 1987 Pangshura tentoria flaviventer — Das, 2001

The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is endemic to India and Bangladesh.

Description[]

P. tentoria is a small species of turtle, growing to a maximum straight carapace length of 27 cm (11 in).^[4]

Subspecies[]

Three subspecies of P. tentoria are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.^[5]

• Pangshura tentoria tentoria (Gray, 1834)
• (Mertens, 1969)
• (Günther, 1864)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pangshura.

Geographic range[]

P. tentoria is found in Peninsular India and Bangladesh.

• P. t. tentoria – Mahanadi, Godavari and Krishna river drainages in India
• P. t. circumdata – upper and central Ganges river drainage in India
• P. t. flaviventer – lower Ganges drainage in Bangladesh and India

Type locality: "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [=Deccan] dicta "; restricted by M.A. Smith 1931: 128, to "Dhond, Poona Dist.", India.

Habitat[]

The preferred habitats of P. tentoria are freshwater rivers and swamps.^[5]

Reproduction[]

P. tentoria is oviparous.^[5]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Das I (2002). Snakes and other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-056-5. (Pangshura tentoria, p. 130).
• Gray JE (1834). "Characters of several New Species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55. (Emys tentoria, new species, p. 54). (in English and Latin).
• Günther ACLG. (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Pangshura tentoria, pp. 34-35 + Plate IV, figures C, C').
• 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. (Kachuga tectum tentoria, pp. 128-129).

External links[]

• Spinks, Phillip Q.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Iverson, John B.; McCord, William P. (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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-11.
• http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm

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