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Indotestudo
Sign in to saveIndotestudo is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. The genus is native to South and Southeast Asia. The three species in the genus are all threatened.
Species
Elongated Tortoise
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTestudines
- FamilyTestudinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Testudinidae
- Collections
- USNM, UTA, YPM, AMNH, CAS
- Recorded in
- India, United States
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Indotestudo is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae. The genus is native to South and Southeast Asia. The three species in the genus are all threatened.
==Species== Indotestudo contains the following species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | 120px|| Elongated tortoise || Indotestudo elongata|| India (Tripura, Jalpaiguri, East Bengal, and Singhbhum in Jharkhand), Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma (or Myanmar), Laos, Thailand (incl. Phuket), Cambodia, Vietnam, Western Malaysia, Southern China |- | 120px|| Forsten's tortoise|| Indotestudo forstenii|| Sulawesi Island of Indonesia, and its nearby islands such as Halmahera island |- | 120px|| Travancore tortoise || Indotestudo travancorica|| India ( Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.) |- |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indotestudo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.