New distribution records of tortoises (Chelonia: Testudinidae) from Barak Valley, Assam, northeastern india with notes on ecology and vernacular traditional taxonomy

Kulendra Chandra Das; Abhik Gupta

doi:10.11609/jott.1902.7017-7023

Journal of Threatened Taxa (Mar 2015)

New distribution records of tortoises (Chelonia: Testudinidae) from Barak Valley, Assam, northeastern india with notes on ecology and vernacular traditional taxonomy

Kulendra Chandra Das,
Abhik Gupta

Affiliations

Kulendra Chandra Das: Department of Environmental Science, PUC, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram 796001, India
Abhik Gupta: Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Assam University, Silchar, Assam 788011, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.1902.7017-7023
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 3
pp. 7017 – 7023

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India is home to five species of tortoises of which the two endangered species are found in northeastern India. We report for first time new distributional records of Indotestudo elongata and additional site records of Manouria emys phayrei from 17 different locations in the Barak Valley region of Assam.

Assam, Barak Valley, Chelonia, distributional record, land tortoise, northeastern India, Testudinidae.

Published in Journal of Threatened Taxa

ISSN: 0974-7893 (Print); 0974-7907 (Online)
Publisher: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society
Country of publisher: India
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General): Ecology; Science: Natural history (General): General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
Website: https://threatenedtaxa.org/

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