Intergradation Between Melanochelys trijuga trijuga and M. t. coronata (Testudines: Emydidae: Batagurinae)
The Indian Black Turtle or pe amai, Melanochelys trijuga, is one of the most abundant chelonians in the Indian subcontinent, with a distribution extending from Sri Lanka (Deraniyagala 1939), through India and Burma, to western Thailand (Wirot 1979), although apparently excluding Bangladesh (Das, 1...
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Asiatic Herpetological Research Society
1990
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| Summary: | The Indian Black Turtle or pe amai, Melanochelys trijuga, is one of the most abundant chelonians in the Indian
subcontinent, with a distribution extending from Sri Lanka (Deraniyagala 1939), through India and Burma, to western Thailand (Wirot 1979), although apparently
excluding Bangladesh (Das, 1989). Nevertheless, details of the distribution of the seven described subspecies remain obscure. The range maps provided by Smith (1931), Das (1985), and Tikader and Sharma (1985) indicate rather clearly allopatric distributions for the Indian
subspecies, but the overall range of the species is based on extremely few and widely-separated locality points (except for Sri Lanka and Kerala), as is evident in the
map provided by Iverson (1986). Deraniyagala (1939) recognized two subspecies in Sri Lanka, but the geographic separation, if any, between these two forms
was not made clear. |
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