A team of herpetologists from the Forest Department and two NGOs - Help Earth and Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) have discovered a new tortoise in Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh.
It is named as Impressed Tortoise (Manouria impressa).
This is the first record of the tortoise in India.
India is already the only home of the Asian Forest tortoise (Manouria emys).
Manouria emys is the largest tortoise in mainland Asia.