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Indotestudo

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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

Elongated Tortoise

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTestudines
  4. FamilyTestudinidae
Observations547
Observations recorded804

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.

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