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Indian Black and Three-keeled Land Turtles
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Indian Black and Three-keeled Land Turtles

Melanochelys

Melanochelys is a genus of turtles in the family Geoemydidae. Members are found in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Indian Black Turtle

speciesMelanochelys trijuga

Three-keeled Land Turtle

speciesMelanochelys tricarinata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39957.