Recently, a rare Albino Indian Flapshell turtle was spotted in Sirnapally Forest inTelangana’s Nizamabad district.
- It was spotted by Manoj Kumar Vittapu, and Shravan Kumar Poshetty, a mountaineer and an international forest forensic investigator.
- There were only two instances earlier of having ‘recorded’ the presence across India. Earlier, it had been spotted in Odisha and West Bengal in 2020
- Its peculiar yellow colour is may be because of either some genetic mutation or congenital disorder due to the absence of tyrosine pigment.
- The Indian Flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata) is one of the most common softshell turtles found in India.
- It is omnivorous and its diet consists of frogs, snails and even some aquatic vegetation.
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