Asian or Indian Pond Terrapin, Black or Hard-shelled Turtle Melanochelys (Geomyda) trijuga thermalis. Sri-Lanka.

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Asian 'Hard-shelled' Terrapin (Geomyda 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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