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Overview:

Endangered

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List: EN Endangered

History:

• 1988-Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
• 1990-Indeterminate (IUCN 1990)
• 1994-Indeterminate (Groombridge 1994)
• 1996-Data Deficient (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Threats:

• 1.1.3 Habitat Loss/Degradation - Agriculture - Non-timber plantations (ongoing)
• 9.9 Intrinsic factors - Restricted range (ongoing)

For info on these threat codes, see here.

Justification

The species is considered to be Critically Endangered in India, but the available data are insufficient to justify Critically Endangered across the whole range.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms:

1. Jerdonella sylhetensis GRAY 1870
2. Pangshura sylhetensis JERDON 1870

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.

Physical Description

Distribution

Range and Population

Bangladesh

Habitat

Biome

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Similar Species

Members of the genus Kachuga:

There are approximately 16 species in this genus.: K. conjuncta · K. dhongoka (Three-Striped Roof Turtle) · K. K. (Bengal Roof Turtle) · K. smithi · K. smithii (Brown Roofed Turtle) · K. smithii pallidipes · K. smithii smithii · K. sylhetensis (Assam Roofed Turtle) · K. tecta (Indian Roofed Turtle) · K. tecta circumdata · K. tecta tentorid · K. tentoria (Indian Tent Turtle) · K. tentoria circumdata · K. tentoria flaviventer · K. tentoria tentoria · K. trivittata (Burmese Roofed Turtle)

Bibliography

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.
• Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Kachuga sylhetensis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 21, 2007.
• EMBL Reptile Database 2005.

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System Serial Number: 551793
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 326532
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6139