Batagur dhongoka (GRAY, 1834)

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Higher Taxa	Geoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Three-striped Roofed Turtle, Dhond Roofed Turtle G: Dreistreifen-Flussschildkröte
Synonym	Emys dhongoka GRAY 1834 Emys Duvaucelii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 334 Kachuga hardwickii GRAY 1869 Batagur dhongoka — MURRAY 1886: 9 Kachuga dhongoka — BOULENGER 1889 Kachuga dhongoka — SWAN & LEVITON 1962: 109 Kachuga dhongoka — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 162 Kachuga dhongoka — DAS 1996: 38 Batagur dhongoka — LE et al. 2007 Kachuga dhongoka — ROHILLA & TIWARI 2008 Kachuga dhongoka — MURTHY 2010: 23 Kachuga dhongoka — LENZ 2012 Batagur dhongoka — TTWG 2021
Distribution	Nepal, Bangladesh, NE India (Assam, Ganges and Brahmaputra drainages) Type locality: Unstated; restricted by Smith 1931:130, to "N. India."
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: unlocated fide Iverson 1992: 131
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: partly after RHODIN et al. 2010. Distribution: possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012 and references therein). Habitat: freshwater (Rivers and tributaries, estuaries)
References	Barhadiya, Gaurav; Aisha Sultana, Mohammad Shah Hussain 2020. First Record of the Critically Endangered Three-striped Roofed Turtle, Batagur dhongoka (Gray 1834), from the Yamuna River, Delhi, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 27 (2): 220-221 - get paper here Bour, R. 2008. Global diversity of turtles (Chelonii; Reptilia) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595:593–598 - get paper here Das, I. et al. 2008. Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles of India. WWF/WII poster Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp. Duméril, A.M.C., and G. Bibron. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles, Vol. 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, iv + 680 p. - get paper here Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London Gray. J. E. 1834. Illustrations of Indian Zoology, chiefly selected from the collection of Major - General Hardwicke. Vol. 2. London (1833-1834): 263 pp., 95 plates - get paper here Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here Le, Minh; William P. McCord and John B. Iverson 2007. On the paraphyly of the genus Kachuga (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 398-404 - get paper here Lenz, Norbert 2012. Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 pp. Murray, James A. 1886. The reptiles of Sind : a systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, North-west Provinces and the peninsula of India ge London : Richardson & Co - get paper here Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. Purkayastha, J., DAS, I., Sengupta, S. 2015. Freshwater Turtles & Tortoises of South Asia. Bhabani Books, 138 pp. - get paper here Purkayastha, Jayaditya; Ahmed Mahmadul Hassan, Hasanul Islam, Jessica Das, Manoj Sarma, Mituseela Basumatary, Nilakshi Sarma, Nishant Chatterjee, Sachin Singha, Vishnupriya Nair, Arundhati Purkayastha, Jayashree Dutta, Madhurima Das 2013. Turtles of the Temple Pond of Kamakhya, Assam, India. Reptile Rap (15): 11-15 - get paper here Rohilla, Manoj S.; Tiwari, Pramod K. 2008. Restriction fragment length polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA and phylogenetic relationships among five species of Indian freshwater turtles. Journal of Applied Genetics 49(2):167-182 - get paper here Sirsi, Shashwat; Shailendra Singh, Ashutosh Tripathi, Shawn F. McCracken, Michael R.J. Forstner, and Brian D. Horne 2017. Variation in Reproductive Output of the Red-crowned Roofed Turtle (Batagur kachuga) and the Three-striped Roofed Turtle (Batagur dhongoka) in the Chambal River of North India. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Dec 2017, Vol. 16, No. 2: 203-214. - get paper here Smith, Malcolm A. 1931. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia Volume I.—Loricata, Testudines. Taylor and Francis, London, 185 pp. - get paper here Swan, L.W., & Leviton, A.E. 1962. The herpetology of Nepal: a history, check list, and zoogeographical analysis of the herpetofauna. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 32 (6) (4.s.): 103-147. - get paper here TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2021. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. doi:10.3854/crm.8.checklist.atlas.v9.2021. - get paper here Zug, G.R. & Mitchell, J.C. 1995. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Asiatic Herpetological Research 6: 172-180 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.chelonia.org/kachuga_gallery.htm https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/405996748291596 Google images

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