The tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (''Melanochelys tricarinata'') is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of turtle found in northeastern
India
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,
Bangladesh
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, and
Nepal
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.
''Melanochelys tricarinata''
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References
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. . (''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).
Reptiles of India
Melanochelys
Reptiles described in 1856
Taxa named by Edward Blyth
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