tricarinate hill turtle

{{Short description|Species of turtle}}

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| image = Geoemyda tricarinata - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ11600097.tif

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Horne, B.D. |author2=Praschag, P. |author3=Choudhury, B.C. |author4=Singh, S. |date=2020 |title=Melanochelys tricarinata |volume=2020 |page=e.T13038A511526 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T13038A511526.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| status2 = CITES_A1

| status2_system = CITES

| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}

| genus = Melanochelys

| species = tricarinata

| authority = (Blyth, 1856)

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• Geomyda tricarinata
  {{small|Blyth, 1856}}
• Geoemyda tricarinata
  {{small|— Gray, 1870}}
• Chaibassia tricarinata
  {{small|— Theobald, 1876}}
• Chaibassia theobaldi
  {{small|Anderson, 1879}}
• Nicoria tricarinata
  {{small|— Lydekker, 1889}}
• Nicoria tricarinata var. sivalensis
  {{small|Lydekker, 1889}}
• Melanochelys tricarinata
  {{small|— McDowell, 1964}}
• Nicoria sivalensis
  {{small|— Młynarski, 1976}}
• Melanochelys tricarinate
  {{small|Das, 1991}} (ex errore)

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite journal | journal = Vertebrate Zoology | title = Checklist of Chelonians of the World | year = 2007 | author = Fritz, Uwe | author2 = Havaš, Peter | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 234–235 | doi = 10.3897/vz.57.e30895 | doi-access = free | issn = 1864-5755 }}

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The tricarinate hill turtle or three-keeled land turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata) is a species of turtle found in northeastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Melanochelys&species=tricarinata&search_param=%28%28genus%3D%27Melanochelys%27%2Cexact%29%29 Melanochelys tricarinata], The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.