http://pucir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/619 2026-05-21T02:48:05Z 2026-05-21T02:48:05Z Chandra Kulendra, Das http://pucir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/624 2024-06-12T10:22:54Z 2014-08-13T00:00:00Z

Title: Taxonomic rank of Indian tortoise: revisit with DNA barcoding perspective Authors: Chandra Kulendra, Das Abstract: Taxonomic rank of terrestrial tortoise inhabiting in India and adjacent countries has been an unresolved issue. Wild living species of Manouria and Indotestudo genera have been classiied through conventional taxonomy, but not adequately discriminated by mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Cytochrome oxidase (COI) marker has been quite successful to achieve the exact species level information. There needs of an accurate sequence based effort for the extant northeast (NE) Indian tortoises to identify them accurately and to provide locality information. To estimate the Kimura-2-Parameter (K2P) divergences and to construct the Neighbour- Joining (NJ) phylogeny, we generated six partial COI sequences derived from expert-identiied tortoise specimens. Both BLASTn and Bold-IDs revealed the deinitive identity of Manouria, whereas the congeners of Indotestudo remain inconclusive by only a two-fold interspeciic divergence gap with the other named Indian tortoise species. The NJ phylogeny readily differentiated the three Indian tortoise genera with their respective conspecies but depicted a nonsynonomous group of Indotestudo congeners. This study shows that the molecular identiication of Manouria emys phayrei, Indotestudo elongata and an allopatric population of Indotestudo forstenii in NE India corresponds correctly with existing morphological key support.

2014-08-13T00:00:00Z Chandra Kulendra, Das http://pucir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/623 2024-06-12T10:18:58Z 2020-10-26T00:00:00Z

Title: A first distribution record of the Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle Nilssonia hurum (Gray, 1830) (Reptilia: Testudines: Trionychidae) from Mizoram, India Authors: Chandra Kulendra, Das Abstract: The trionychid turtle species composition remains poorly documented in Mizoram. So far, only three turtle species under this family have been reported by previous workers. Here, we report the occurrence of the Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle Nilssonia hurum (Gray, 1830) based on two individuals collected from Buhchangphai and Serlui, Mizoram, India.

2020-10-26T00:00:00Z Chandra Kulendra, Das http://pucir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/622 2024-06-12T10:16:16Z 2017-07-26T00:00:00Z

Title: An ecologfical nofte on fthe new record of Cuora ambofinensfis (Rfiche fin Daudfin, 1801) (Repftfilfia: Tesftudfines: Geoemydfidae) fin norftheasftern Indfi Authors: Chandra Kulendra, Das Abstract: The presenft sftudy documenfts fthe firsft reporft on fthe occurrence of Cuora ambofinensfis fin Cachar and Karfimganj dfisftrficfts of fthe Barak Valley regfion of soufthern Assam

2017-07-26T00:00:00Z Chandra Kulendra, Das http://pucir.inflibnet.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/621 2024-06-12T10:12:03Z 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Title: New distribution records of tortoises (Chelonia: Testudinidae) from Barak Valley, Assam, northeastern india with notes on ecology and vernacular traditional taxonomy Authors: Chandra Kulendra, Das Abstract: India is home to five species of tortoises of which the two endangered species are found in northeastern India. We report for first time new distributional records of Indotestudo elongata and additional site records of Manouria emys phayrei from 17 different locations in the Barak Valley region of Assam.

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