Brown roofed turtle

Brown roofed turtle
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Pangshura
Species:	P. smithii
Binomial name
Pangshura smithii
Synonyms[1][2]
Batagur smithii Gray, 1863 Pangshura smithii (Gray, 1863) Pangshura smithii smithii Batagur smithii Gray, 1863 Pangshura smithii Günther, 1864 Clemmys smithii Strauch, 1865 Pangshura smith Theobald, 1868 (ex errore) Emia smithii Gray, 1870 Kachuga smithii Boulenger, 1889 Kachuga smithi Smith, 1931 (ex errore) Kachuga amithii Rudloff, 1974 (ex errore) Kachuga smithi smithi Moll, 1987 Kachuga smithii smithii Moll, 1987 Pangshura smithii smithii Das, 2001 Pngshura smithii Das, 2001 Pangshura smithi Gurley, 2003 Pangshura smithi smithi Joseph-Ouni, 2004 Pangshura smithii pallidipes Kachuga smithii pallidipes Moll, 1987 Kachuga smithi pallidipes van Dijk, 2000 Pangshura smithii pallidipes Das, 2001 Pangshura smithi pallidipes Joseph-Ouni, 2004

The brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii) is a species of the Geoemydidae family of turtles found in South Asia.

Races

• P. s. smithii is found in the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra River drainages in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
• P. s. pallidipes is found in the northern tributaries of the Ganges in India and Nepal.

References

 This article incorporates text from Reptilia and Batrachia, Volume 10, by George Albert Boulenger, a publication from 1890 now in the public domain in the United States.

• Auffenberg, Walter;Khan, Naeem Ahmed (1991). Studies of Pakistan reptiles: Notes on Kachuga smithi Hamadryad 16: 25-29.
• Gray, J.E. (1863). Notice of a new species of Batagur. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 253.
• Phillip Q. Spinks; H. Bradley Shaffer; John B. Iverson & William P. McCord (2004). "Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32 (1): 164–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.015. PMID 15186805. 

External links

• Kachuga smithii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Kachuga_smithi.jpg[]

Turtle family Geoemydidae
Genus	Species of the family Geoemydidae
Batagur	Burmese roofed turtle Northern river terrapin Painted terrapin Red-crowned roofed turtle Southern river terrapin Three-striped roofed turtle
Cuora	Amboina box turtle Bourret's box turtle Indochinese box turtle McCord's box turtle Keeled box turtle Pan's box turtle Southern Vietnamese box turtle Chinese three-striped box turtle Yellow-headed box turtle Yellow-margined box turtle Yunnan box turtle Zhou's box turtle
Cyclemys	Asian leaf turtle Assam leaf turtle Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle Enigmatic leaf turtle Myanmar brown leaf turtle Oldham's leaf turtle Western black-bridged leaf turtle
Geoclemys	Black pond turtle
Geoemyda	Black-breasted leaf turtle Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle
Hardella	Brahminy river turtle
Heosemys	Arakan forest turtle Giant Asian pond turtle Spiny turtle Yellow-headed temple turtle
Leucocephalon	Sulawesi forest turtle
Malayemys	Malayan snail-eating turtle Mekong snail-eating turtle
Mauremys	Balkan pond turtle Caspian turtle Chinese pond turtle Chinese stripe-necked turtle Japanese pond turtle Red-necked pond turtle Spanish pond turtle Vietnamese pond turtle Yellow pond turtle
Melanochelys	Indian black turtle Tricarinate hill turtle
Morenia	Burmese eyed turtle Indian eyed turtle
Notochelys	Malayan flat-shelled turtle
Orlitia	Malaysian giant turtle
Pangshura	Assam roofed turtle Brown roofed turtle Indian roofed turtle Indian tent turtle
Rhinoclemmys	Black river turtle Brown wood turtle Colombian wood turtle Furrowed wood turtle Large-nosed wood turtle Maracaibo wood turtle Mexican spotted wood turtle Painted wood turtle Spot-legged turtle
Sacalia	Beal's eyed turtle Four-eyed turtle
Siebenrockiella	Black marsh turtle Philippine forest turtle
Vijayachelys	Cane turtle
Phylogenetic arrangement based on turtles of the world 2011 update: annotated checklist.