Indian Testudines
Tikader, B. K. and Sharma, R. C.
Edition 2 | pp 1 - 156 | November 1995
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Foreword- Editor Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Phylogeny
- Geographical Distribution
- Historical Review
Systematic Account
- Order Testudines
- Suborder Cryptodira
- Key to the Families of the Order Testudines
- Family I. Cheloniidae
- Family II. Dermochelyidae
- Family III. Emydidae
- Key to Genera of the Family Emydidae
- Key to Species of the Genus Kachuga
- Dhongoka Turtle 8. Kachuga dhongoka (Gray)
- Bengal Roofed Turtle 9. K. kachuga (Gray)
- Brown River Turtle 10. K. smithi (Gray)
- Assam Saw-back Turtle 11. K. sylhetensis (Jerdon)
- North Indian Roofed Turtle 12. K. tecta (Gray)
- South Indian Roofed Turtle 13. K. tentoria (Gray)
- North Indian Freshwater Tortoise 14. Geoclemys hamiltoni (Gray)
- Garo & Khasi Hill Tortoise 15. Cyclemys dentata (Gray)
- Assam Freshwater Tortoise 16. C. mouhoti Gray
- Kavalai Forest Turtle 17. Heosemys silvatica (Henderson)
- Three Keeled Tortoise 18. Melanochelys tricarinata (Blyth)
- Indian Snail-eating Turtle 19. M. trijuga trijuga (Schw.)
- Indian Snail-eating Turtle 20. M. t. coronata (Anderson)
- Indian Snail-eating Turtle 21. M. t. indopeninsularis (Annandale)
- Indian Snail-eating Turtle 22. M. t. thermalis (Lesson)
- Family IV. Testudinidae
- Family V. Trionychidae
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Alphabetical Index