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Indotestudo elongata

Tortuga elongada

Tortuga elongada en Dusit Zoo
Estado de conservación
En peligro crítico (CR)
En peligro crítico (UICN 2.3)[1]
Taxonomía
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Reptilia
Orden: Testudines
Familia: Testudinidae
Género: Indotestudo
Especie: I. elongata
(Blyth, 1853)
Sinonimia

Testudo elongata
Geochelone elongata

La tortuga elongada (Indotestudo elongata) es una tortuga terrestre de la familia Testudinidae del sudeste asiático y parte del sur de Asia. La especie se distribuye por Nepal, Bangladés, India (Jalpaiguri, Bengala Oriental, y Singhbhum en Bihar), Birmania (o Myanmar), Laos, Tailandia (incl. Phuket), Camboya, Vietnam, oeste de Malasia y sur de China.

Descripción

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Indotestudo elongata

Por lo general la tortuga elongada mide alrededor de 30 cm de largo y pesa 3,5 kg en la edad adulta. Las hembras tienden a ser más anchas que los machos y más redondeadas. Los machos también tienen una cola que es mucho mayor que el de la hembra. Los machos tienen un plastrón cóncavo, mientras que el plastrón de la hembra es plano. Además, las garras posteriores de la hembra son claramente más largas y más curvadas que las de los machos. Se cree que esto es para facilitar la construcción del nido.

Referencias

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  • Blyth,E. 1854 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655
  • Gray,J.E. 1857 Notice of some Indian tortoises (including the description of a new species presented to the British Museum by Professor Oldham). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 19: 342-344
  • Iverson, John B., Phillip Q. Spinks, H. Bradley Shaffer, William P. McCord and Indraneil Das 2001 Phylogenetic relationships among the Asian tortoises of the genus Indotestudo (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae). Hamadryad 26 (2):271-274


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