Indotestudo forstenii

Taxobox | name = Forsten's Tortoise
status = EN| status_system = iucn2.3


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
familia = Testudinidae
genus = "Indotestudo"
species = "I. forstenii"
binomial = "Indotestudo forstenii"
binomial_authority = (Schlegel & Müller, 1844)
synonyms = "Testudo forstenii" "Geochelone forsteni"
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Indotestudo forstenii called "Forsten's Tortoise" and "Travancore Tortoise" is a species of tortoise found on the Indonesian isle of Sulawesi (=Celebes). "Indotestudo travancorica" is found in the Western Ghats of India and has been considered as a synonym of I. forstenii previously but is now treated as a full species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered
* Boulenger, G.A. 1907 A new tortoise from Travancore. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 560-564.
* Iverson, John B., Phillip Q. Spinks, H. Bradley Shaffer, William P. McCord and Indraneil Das 2001 Phylogenetic relationships among the Asian tortoises of the genus Indotestudo (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae). Hamadryad 26 (2):271-274
* Pritchard, Peter C. H. 2000 Indotestudo travancorica. A Valid Species of Tortoise? Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 5(2):18-28.
* Radhakrishnan, C. 1998 Additional record of the travancore tortoise, Indotestudo forstenii (Schlegel & Muller) (TestudinidaReptilia) in Kerala Cobra 34 (Oct.-Dec.): 19-20

External links

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* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Indotestudo_forsteni1.jpg
* http://studbooks.org