Malayan flat-shelled turtle

Malayan flat-shelled turtle
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Geoemydidae
Subfamily:	Geoemydinae
Genus:	Notochelys; Gray, 1863
Species:	N. platynota
Binomial name
	Notochelys platynota; (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms[3]
	Emys platynota Gray, 1834; Emys platynotha Gray, 1835 (ex errore); Cyclemys platynota Gray, 1856; Notochelys platynota Gray, 1863; Cyclemys giebelii Hubrecht, 1881; Cistudo bankanensis Bleeker, 1889 (nomen nudum); Notochelys platysnota Nutaphand, 1979 (ex errore);

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

Kusrini, M.D.; Hamidy, A.; Guntoro, J.; Cota, M.; Schoppe, S. (2021). "Notochelys platynota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T14856A546301. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T14856A546301.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
"Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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 1 May 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

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.

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[iucn_status_18_November_2021-1] Kusrini, M.D.; Hamidy, A.; Guntoro, J.; Cota, M.; Schoppe, S. (2021). "Notochelys platynota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T14856A546301. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T14856A546301.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.

[CITES-2] "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

[Fritz_2007-3] 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 1 May 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2012.