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Scientific Name: Batagur baska (Gray, 1831)
English Name: River Terrapin
Local/Bangla Name: Bodo Kaitta ( বড কাইট্টা)
Photo: iNaturalist
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Geoemydidae
Description:
The upper part of the shell is olive-brown, and the lower part is yellowish. The carapace is moderately depressed, displaying a vertebral keel in the young, which disappears in adults. The plastron is large, strongly angulate laterally in the young, convex in adults, truncated at the front, and angularly notched at the back. The width of the bridge is greater than the length of the posterior lobe. The head is relatively small, with a pointed, upward-directed snout, and denticulated edges on the jaws. Limbs have transversely enlarged, band-like scales.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
It resides in rivers, coastal mangrove estuaries. In Bangladesh, it is found in the Sundarbans River system.
Environment:
Freshwater, brackish.
Main References:
Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Ahmed ZU, Begum, ZNT, Hassan MΑ, and Khondker M (2009) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 25. Amphibians and Reptiles. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 204 pp
Other References:
Rahman ANMA (2015) Wildlife of Bangladesh, Department of Films & Publications, Ministry of Information, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
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