Journal of Threatened Taxa (Jun 2020)

First distribution record of Elongated Tortoise Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1853) (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae) from Bihar, India

  • Arif,
  • Sourabh Verma,
  • Ayesha Mohammad Maslehuddin,
  • Uttam,
  • Ambarish Kumar Mall,
  • Gaurav Ojha,
  • Hemkant Roy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.5946.12.9.16170-16172
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 9
pp. 16170 – 16172

Abstract

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The Elongated Tortoise, Indotestudo elongata (Family Testudinidae) is one of the five land tortoises having distribution in India. For the first time, we report a new distributional record for this species from Valmiki Tiger Reserve region of Bihar.

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