First distribution record of Elongated Tortoise Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1853) (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae) from Bihar, India
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Arif; Sourabh Verma; Ayesha Mohammad Maslehuddin; Uttam; Ambarish Kumar Mall; Gaurav Ojha; Hemkant Roy
- Source
- Journal of Threatened Taxa, Vol 12, Iss 9, Pp 16170-16172 (2020)
- Subject
- valmiki tiger reserve
bihar
testunidae
chelonia
distributional record
land tortoise
Ecology
QH540-549.5
General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
QH1-199.5
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0974-7893
0974-7907
The Elongated Tortoise, Indotestudo elongata (Family Testudinidae) is one of the five land tortoises having distribution in India. For the first time, we report a new distributional record for this species from Valmiki Tiger Reserve region of Bihar.