Black Pond Turtle is an Indian Reptile that bears a scientific name "Geoclemys hamiltonii", is a species of Turtle family.

Concentration of Black Pond Turtle
Black Pond Turtle is also known as the Spotted Pond Turtle or the Indian Spotted Turtle, and is a species of Turtle endemic to South Asia.

Genus of Black Pond Turtle
Black Pond Turtle belongs to the monotypic genus Geoclemys. The specific name, Hamiltonii, is in honour of Scottish botanist and ichthyologist Francis Hamilton.

Structure of Black Pond Turtle
Black Pond Turtle is mainly black with small yellowish spots, and a much-elevated carapace, with three interrupted keels or series of nodose prominences corresponding to the vertebral and costal shields.

Colour of Black Pond Turtle
The posterior border of Black Pond Turtle and the carapace of Black Pond Turtle is strongly serrated in young, but feebly in the adult. The nuchal is moderate, broader posterior than interiorly. The first vertebral is not or scarcely broader anteriorly than posteriorly. The second and third vertebral are broader than long in the young, nearly as long as broad in the adult, narrower than the costal.

Plastron of Black Pond Turtle
The plastron of Black Pond Turtle is large, angulated laterally, truncate interiorly. The posterior lobe of the plastron is much narrower than the opening of the shell, nearly as long as the width of the bridge, deeply notched posterior.

Head of Black Pond Turtle
The head of Black Pond Turtle is rather large.

Snout of Black Pond Turtle
The snout of Black Pond Turtle is very short, not projecting.

Upper Jaws of Black Pond Turtle
The upper jaws of Black Pond Turtle are emarginated mesially.

Width of Black Pond Turtle
The width of the Black Pond Turtle at the symphysis nearly equals the horizontal diameter of the orbit. A large shield covers the upper surface of the snout and the crown, sometimes divided into three, one shield around the upper jaw and one on each side between the eye and the ear.

Digits of Black Pond Turtle
The digits of Black Pond Turtle are webbed to the claws.

Tail of Black Pond Turtle
The tail of Black Pond Turtle is extremely short.

Shell of Black Pond Turtle
The shell of Black Pond Turtle is dark brown or blackish, elegantly marked with yellow spots and radiating streaks, and the soft parts are dark brown or blackish, with round yellow spots, largest on the head and neck

Concentration of Black Pond Turtle
Black Pond Turtle is found in southern Pakistan (Indus River Valley) and Ganga River in the northern and eastern parts of India, north-eastern Indian states like Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland and the entire region of Brahmaputra River Valley and Bangladesh.