Batagur kachuga (GRAY, 1831)

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Higher Taxa	Geoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Red-crowned Roofed Turtle, Painted Roofed Turtle G: Bengalische Flussschildkröte
Synonym	Emys kachuga GRAY 1831: plate 74 Emys lineata GRAY 1831 Emys Lineata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 335 Batagur ellioti GRAY 1862 Batagur ellioti — GRAY 1863: 75 Batagur lineata — THEOBALD 1868: 16 Kachuga fusca GRAY 1870 Batagur ellioti — ANDERSON 1871: 154 Kachuga lineata — BOULENGER 1889 Kachuga kachuga — SMITH 1931 Kachuga kachuga — SWAN & LEVITON 1962: 109 Kachuga kachuga — ERNST & BARBOUR 1989: 162 Kachuga kachuga — DAS 1996: 38 Batagur kachuga — LE et al. 2007 Kachuga kachuga — ROHILLA & TIWARI 2008 Kachuga kachuga — MURTHY 2010: 23 Kachuga kachuga — LENZ 2012 Batagur kachuga — TTWG 2021
Distribution	C Nepal, NE India (Himachal Pradesh), Bangladesh, (primarily in the watershed of the Ganges River) probably NW Myanmar (= Burma) Type locality: "India"; restricted by Smith 1931:131, to "N. India."
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: unknown (fide KING & BURKE 1989) Holotype: BMNH 1947.3.4.68 (55.12.17.15) [ellioti]
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	Anderson, J. 1871. On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871: 149-211 - get paper here Basu, Dhruvajyoti; Andrew, Harry V.; Singh, Suresh Pal; Singh, Renu; Devi, Kundhave; Mundoli, Seema 2006. First captive breeding record of the Indian painted roofed turtle, Kachuga kachuga. Herpinstance 3(2):7-9. 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. 1831. Illustrations of Indian Zoology: chiefly selected from the collection of Major General Hardwicke. Vol. 1, London (1830-1835) - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1862. Notice of two new species of Batagur in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1862: 264-265. - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1863. Notice of two new species of Batagur in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 12: 74-75 - 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. Moll, E.O. 1986. Survey of the freshwater turtles of India. The genus Kachuga. [2 parts]. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83 (3): 538-552 - get paper here Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. PRASCHAG, PETER; ROHAN HOLLOWAY, ARTHUR GEORGES, MARTIN PÄCKERT, ANNA K. HUNDSDÖRFER & UWE FRITZ 2009. A new subspecies of Batagur affinis (Cantor, 1847), one of the world’s most critically endangered chelonians (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 2233: 57-68 - get paper here Purkayastha, J., DAS, I., Sengupta, S. 2015. Freshwater Turtles & Tortoises of South Asia. Bhabani Books, 138 pp. - 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 Saikia, U.; Sharma, D.K. & Sharma, R.M. 2007. Checklist of the Reptilian fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India. Reptile Rap (8): 6-9 - 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 Theobald, William 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles of British Birma, embracing the provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 10: 4-67. - 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 Vetter, H. & P.P van Dijk 2006. Turtles of the world, Vol. 4: East and South Asia. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 4, 160 pp. - 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
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