黑山龜

黑山龜（學名：Melanochelys trijuga）是黑龜屬下的一種龜。分佈在南亞地區的淡水中。

黑山龜
保護狀況
近危（IUCN 2.3）
科學分類
界：	動物界 Animalia
門：	脊索動物門 Chordata
綱：	爬蟲綱 Reptilia
目：	龜鱉目 Testudines
亞目：	曲頸龜亞目 Cryptodira
科：	地龜科 Geoemydidae
屬：	黑龜屬 Melanochelys
種：	黑山龜 M. trijuga
二名法
Melanochelys trijuga Schweigger, 1812
異名
Melanochelys trijuga trijuga Emys trijuga Schweigger, 1812 Emys belangeri Lesson, 1834 Clemmys (Clemmys) trijuga Fitzinger, 1835 Melanochelys trijuga Gray, 1869 Emys trijuga var. madraspatana Anderson, 1879 Clemmys theobaldi Lydekker, 1885 Bellia theobaldi Lydekker, 1889 Nicoria trijuga Boulenger, 1889 Geoemyda [trijuga] trijuga Siebenrock, 1909 Geoemyda trijuga plumbea Annandale, 1915 Melanochelys trijuga Deraniyagala, 1939 Melanochelys trijuga trijuga Pritchard, 1979 Melanochelys triguja Highfield, 1996 (ex errore) Melanochelys trijuga coronata Emys trijuga var. coronata Anderson, 1879 Nicoria trijuga var. coronata Bruner, 1908 Geoemyda trijuga coronata Siebenrock, 1909 Melanochelys trijuga coronata Pritchard, 1979 Melanochelys trijuga edeniana Melanochelys edeniana Theobald, 1876 Emys trijuga var. burmana Anderson, 1879 Nicoria trijuga var. edeniana Boulenger, 1889 Geoemyda trijuga edeniana Siebenrock, 1909 Melanochelys trijuga edeniana Deraniyagala, 1939 Emys trijuga edeniana Bourret, 1941 Geoemyda trijuga wiroti Reimann, 1979 Melanochelys trijuga wiroti Stubbs, 1989 Melanochelys edeniana edeniana Bour, 2002 Melanochelys edeniana wiroti Bour, 2002 Melanochelys trijuga indopeninsularis Geoemyda indopeninsularis Annandale, 1913 Geoemyda trijuga indopeninsularis Smith, 1931 Melanochelys trijuga indopeninsularis Deraniyagala, 1939 Melanochelys edeniana indopeninsularis Bour, 2002 Melanochelys trijuga parkeri Melanochelys trijuga parkeri Deraniyagala, 1939 Geoemyda trijuga parkeri Mertens & Wermuth, 1955 Melanochelys trijuga thermalis Emys thermalis Lesson, 1830 Emys sebae Gray, 1831 Emys seba Gray, 1844 (ex errore) Geoclemys seba Gray, 1856 Clemmys thermalis Strauch, 1862 Melanochelys sebae Gray, 1870 Emys trijuga var. sebae Anderson, 1879 Nicoria trijuga var. thermalis Boulenger, 1889 Geoemyda trijuga thermalis Siebenrock, 1909 Melanochelys trijuga thermalis Deraniyagala, 1939

特徵

昌巴爾河的黑山龜

其貝殼顏色從深褐色到黑色不等，胸甲呈褐色，頭部有黃色或橘黃色條紋。其體型在38—45 cm（15—18英寸）之間。

保育狀況

其被列為《瀕危野生動植物種國際貿易公約》附錄二的物種，被限制出口及貿易。

參考文獻

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. Melanochelys trijuga. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000. [11 May 2006]. 
• Mitchell, Joseph C.;Rhodin, Anders G. J. 1996 Observations on the natural history and exploitation of the turtles of Nepal, with life history notes on Melanochelys trijuga. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2 (1): 66-72
• Schweigger, A.F. 1812 Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem., 1: 271-368, 406-458.
• Mukherjee, D., A.M.A. Nixon and S. Bhupathy. 2006 Observations on the Morphometry of two subspecies of Melanochelys trijuga from the Western Ghats, India. Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter 9, 7-9.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130426071223/http://www.arkive.org/indian-black-turtle/melanochelys-trijuga/
• careforturtles.blogspot.in

外部連結

• TIGR Reptile Database上的Melanochelys trijuga