Malayan flat-shelled turtle
Malayan flat-shelled turtle | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Geoemydidae |
Subfamily: | Geoemydinae |
Genus: | Notochelys Gray, 1863 |
Species: | N. platynota |
Binomial name | |
Notochelys platynota (Gray, 1834) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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The Malayan flat-shelled turtle (Notochelys platynota) is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia.
Distribution
Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, West Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bangka), Vietnam, Singapore. Type locality: "in India Orientali", later restricted to "Sumatra; Singapore" by Gray (1863:177).
References
- ↑ Fritz Uwe; Peter Havaš (2007). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 237–238. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group (2000). "Notochelys platynota". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T14856A97374195. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T14856A4465399.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018. Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable
- Buskirk, James 1997 The Malayan Flat-Shelled Turtle Notochelys platynota Vivarium 9 (1): 6-9;15
- Gray, J.E. 1834 Characters of several new species of freshwater tortoises (Emys) from India and China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55
- Gray, J.E. 1863 Observations on the box tortoises, with the descriptions of three new Asiatic species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 173-179
- Gray, J.E. 1864 Observations on the box tortoises, with the description of three new Asiatic species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 105-111
- Gray, J.E. 1873 On the original form, development, and cohesion of the bones of the sternum of chelonians; with notes on the skeleton of Sphargis. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 11: 161-172
- Liat, Lim Boo & Das, Indraneil 1999 The turtles of Borneo and peninsular Malaysia. Kota Kinabalu, natural History Publications, 151 pp.
External links
- Notochelys platynota at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Notochelys_platynota.jpg%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
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