Busalangga
| Desa Busalangga Busalangga village
|
|
|---|---|
| Basic data | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| province | East Nusa Tenggara |
| Administrative district | Red Ndao |
| local community | |
| Residents | 3427 (2010) |
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-NT |
Coordinates: 10 ° 48 ′ S , 123 ° 0 ′ E
 
| |
Location in East Nusa Tenggara Province
|
Busalangga is an Indonesian Desa ( "village") in the district ( kecamatan ) Red Barat According to ( administrative region Rote Ndao Regency , Province East Nusa Tenggara ) on the island of Roti .
Geography and inhabitants
Busalangga is located in the north of the Rote Barat Laut district, the administrative seat of which it is also. In 2010, 3,427 people lived in Busalangga.
fauna
The lakes around Busalangga are part of the habitat of the last Chelodina mccordi mccordi , the western subspecies of the McCord's neck turtle . But here, too, the turtles are threatened with extinction due to illegal animal trade and loss of habitat.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Penduduk Indonesia menurut desa 2010 ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Indonesian; PDF; 6.0 MB), accessed on January 26, 2013
- ^ Map of Roti
- ↑ Rhodin, Anders GJ, Ibarrondo, Bonggi R. and Kuchlin, Gerald: Chelodina mccordi Rhodin 1994 - Roti Island snake-necked turtle, McCord's snake-necked turtle, kura-kura red in: Rhodin, AGJ, Pritchard, PCH, van Dijk , PP, Saumure, RA, Buhlmann, KA, and Iverson, JB (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 008.1-008.8, doi : 10.3854 / crm.5.008.mccordi.v1.2008 ( ISSN 1088-7105 ), 2008 (English).
