Pangshura tentoria
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria), or Indian gamp turtle, is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae. The species is found in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. P. tentoria is a small species of turtle, growing to a maximum straight carapace length of 27 cm (11 in).
Three subspecies of P. tentoria are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. Pangshura tentoria tentoria (Gray, 1834) Pangshura tentoria circumdata (Mertens, 1969) Pangshura tentoria flaviventer (Günther, 1864)
Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pangshura. P. tentoria is found in Peninsular India, Nepal, and Bangladesh at elevations below 80 m (260 ft) asl. P. t. tentoria – Mahanadi and Godavari river drainages in India (country endemic)
P. t. circumdata – upper and central Ganges river drainage in India and southern Nepal P. t. flaviventer – lower Ganges drainage in Bangladesh, India, and southern Nepal Type locality: "in Indiae Orientalis regione Dukhun [=Deccan] dicta "; restricted by M.A. Smith 1931: 128, to "Dhond, Poona Dist.", India... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Prague Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 2 | Rákosův pavilon | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 3 | Velemlokárium | 🇨🇿 Czechia |
No species of the same family or order lives in Pune, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Tent Turtle sighting in Pune on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 20th most-seen of the 20 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Tent Turtle in Pune on a given day, against under 5% in June and August–April, the lowest months. That is one of Pune's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain against 520 mm in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Indian Tent Turtle sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Pune, in our data
Pune is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Indian Tent Turtle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Indian Tent Turtle is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Pune (5 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
