1. SEMINAR ON
Presented By :
Manash Jyoti Borah
Roll no : 33
B.Sc 3rd semester
Zoology (Honours)
Aves : Psittacula euparia (Parrot)
&
REPTILES : Pangshura sylhetensis ( Assam roofed turtle)
2. Contents
1. AVES : Psittacula euparia (Parrot)
a) Classification.
b) Distribution.
c) Habitat.
d) General characteristics of Parrot.
e) Economic importance.
f) Special features.
2. REPTILES : Pangshura sylhetensis (Assam roofed turtle)
a) Classification.
b) Distribution.
c) Habitat.
d) General characteristics of Assam roofed turtle
e) Special features.
3. CLASSIFICATION
Phylum : Chordata
Class : Aves
Order : Psittaciformes
Genus : Psittacula
Species : euparia
1. Aves : Psittacula euparia (Parrot)
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
Parrot is found in India, Pakistan,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka and USA .
HABITAT
It is found on tall trees in flocks in city as well as in
villages. It is commonly found in the fruit trees, ripe
crops and in jungles.
Fig : Parrot
4. General Characteristics of Parrot
• Commonly called Indian parakeet or parrot.
• Body is divisible into head, neck, back, breast and
abdomen.
• Head contains paired eyes, nostril and homy beaks.
• Feet adapted for grasping, holding and climbing.
• Tail feathers elongated. Maroon patches on wing
feathers.
• Flight is graceful and voice powerful.
• Female is green all over, but the male has a rose pink
and black neck collar ring.
• Nesting season December to April. Fig : Psittacula euparia (Parrot)
5. Economic Importance
• Parrots are sometimes kept as pets.
• These birds are also used as a source of ecotourism in the form of bird-watching.
• People often spend money buying seeds and bird feeders to feed parrot
Special Features
• Parrot is a popular domesticated cage bird, found almost in every home.
• It copies and speaks some words like man.
• It is a serious agricultural pest to the cultivators and food growers.
• It causes enormous harm to standing crops and ripening orchard fruits.
• It eats maize, pulse, groundnuts and sometimes does considerable damage in newly sown
fields.
6. 2. REPTILES : Pangshura sylhetensis (Assam roofed turtle)
CLASSIFICATION
Phylum : Chordata
Class : Reptilia
Order : Testudines
Family : Geoemydidae
Genus : Pangshura
Species : P . sylhetensis
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
Assam roofed turtle found in the Brahmaputra-Meghna
drainage in India and parts of eastern Bangladesh.
HABITAT
It is found in terrestrial and freshwater habitats in areas with upland tropical moist
forest, fast-flowing streams and also in small rivers.
Fig : Assam roofed turtle
7. General Characteristics of Assam roofed turtle
• Assam Roofed Turtle has a triangular and
elevated carapace with a prominent spiked keel
and strongly serrated marginal plates.
• The carapace of Assam Roofed Turtle is olive-
brown in colour.
• The head of Assam roofed turtle is small .
• Adults may attain a maximum length of 20 cm,
although body sizes of 15 cm are more
common.
• Assam Roofed Turtles nest between late
October and February.
• The hatchlings of Assam Roofed Turtle appear
mainly between March and April.
Fig : Assam roofed turtle
8. Special features
• The Assam roofed turtle is shy and never basks on river banks, but only on emergent
logs or rocks.
• At the slightest disturbance, it will dive quickly to the middle of the river, hiding
between rocks.
• Juveniles often flee into accumulations of dead leaves for camouflage and remain
motionless.
Fig : Turtle basking on log
