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The Spotted Pond Turtle, Geoclemys hamiltoni (Gray) is a large (up to 36 cm) rare, aquatic turtle restricted to the Brahmaputra, Ganges (Ganga) and Indus (Sind) drainage systems of northern India, adjacent Nepal and Bangladesh, and extreme western Pakistan. The Nepal record is from the India-Nepal border (Moll and Vijaya 1986) and the turtle is probably only peripheral in the latter country. The species is also known as the Black Pond Turtle, the genus is monotypic, no subspecies are recognized and geographic variation has not been reported. Little primary literature exists on the natural history of the species and most accounts are primarily taxonomic descriptions. There are no major accounts written by people personally familiar with these turtles and only a few published notes by people who have worked with t! he species in the wild exist (Smith 1931 and Das 1985, et sequel). Most general accounts do not provide references and it is difficult to identify the original sources of the scant available information repeated by various authors.