Asian or Indian Black Terrapin or Hard Shelled Turtle Melanochelys (Geomyda) trigua thermalis. Sri-Lanka specimen.

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Indian Black Turtle or Sri Lanka 'Hard-shelled' Terrapin (Melanochelys trijuga). Sub-species, thermalis, from Sri Lanka. Orange- yellow head markings help distinguish this race. Otherwise species found widely from Myanmar (Burma), to Sri Lanka, including much of Pakistan, India, south Vietnam.

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