Tricarinate hill turtle

The tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.^[4]

Tricarinate hill turtle
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Genus:	Melanochelys
Species:	M. tricarinata
Binomial name
Melanochelys tricarinata (Blyth, 1856)
Synonyms[3]
Geomyda tricarinata Blyth, 1856 Geoemyda tricarinata — Gray, 1870 Chaibassia tricarinata — Theobald, 1876 Chaibassia theobaldi Anderson, 1879 Nicoria tricarinata — Lydekker, 1889 Nicoria tricarinata var. sivalensis Lydekker, 1889 Melanochelys tricarinata — McDowell, 1964 Nicoria sivalensis — Młynarski, 1976 Melanochelys tricarinate Das, 1991 (ex errore)