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Elongated Tortoise

Educational resources on Elongated Tortoise

Elongated Tortoise or Indotestudo elongata is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1cd+2cd. IUCN Profile of the Elongated Tortoise

Academic web links for the Elongated Tortoise.


Elongated (Indian) Tortoise
The eggs of the elongated tortoise are large, and take 130 - 190 days to hatch. Species Status: The elongated tortoise is classified as
www.ben.edu/museum/elongatedtortoise.asp

EMYSystem Species Page: Indotestudo elongata (Elongated Tortoise)
Original Description: Blyth 1853: 639: Type Locality "Hab. Arakan" [Burma] Holotype : Possibly in the Indian Museum, Calcutta according to Bourret 1941:189; may
emys.geo.orst.edu/collection/species/Indotestudoelongata/Indotestudoelongata.html

EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Indotestudo elongata (Elongated ...
Original Description Blyth 1853: 639 Holotype Possibly in the Indian Museum, Calcutta according to Bourret 1941:189; may be ZSI 799 from "Arakan" according to Crumly pers. comm
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/species/Indotestudoelongata/Indotestudoelongata.html

Reptiles
Tortoise (Elongated) Tortoise (Texas) Turtle (Blanding) Turtle (Cumberland Slider) Turtle (Diamondback Terrapin) Turtle (East African Mud) Turtle (Eastern Box Turtle)
www.ben.edu/museum/reptilelist.asp

EMYSystem Text Only Genus Page: Indotestudo (Asian Tortoises)
...species list I. elongata (Elongated Tortoise) I. forstenii (Travancore Tortoise) Original Description Lindholm 1929: 285 Common Name Asian Tortoises
emys.geo.orst.edu/text_only/collection/genus/Indotestudo/Indotestudo.html

ASEAN AGREEMENT ON THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Testudo elongata Elongated tortoise 30. Testudo emys Giant asiatic tortoise 31. Testudo impressa Impressed tortoise 32.
sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri/texts/asean.natural.resources.1985.html

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--10
GEOGRAPHIC CODE: BD, BU, CN, IN, KH, MY, TH, VN. COMMON NAME: Yellow tortoise, Red-nosed tortoise, Yellow-headed tortoise, Elongated tortoise.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst10.htm

World Turtle Database
Search this site
emys.geo.orst.edu/main_pages/database.html

INDEX [yalepress.yale.edu]
259,283,356; Asian Elep hant (Elephasmaximus), 11,24,28, 99,120-121,171,225,258,277; Forest Elephant (Loxodontacyclotis), 120; Savanna Elephant (L. africana), 120 Elongated Tortoise
yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/index/sterling_vietnam.pdf

Turtle, Tuatara, Crocodile Checklist--Index
Elongated tortoise Elseya Elseya dentata Elysea latisternum Elseya novaeguineae Elseya purvisi Elseya sterlingi Emyda Emyda scutata Emyde Emydidae
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/turtcroclist/queryhitturt.htm







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