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Tricarinate hill turtle

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ378682 ↗
Source-derived summary

The tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

References

Further reading

Blyth E (1856). "Report on the collections presented by Capt. Berdmore and Mr. Theobald". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 24 (7): 713–720. (Geomyda tricarinata, new species, p. 714).

Boulenger GA (1890).

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This entry incorporates text from “Tricarinate hill turtle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.