Taxonavigation

Family: Platysternidae
Genus: Platysternon
Species: Platysternon megacephalum
Subspecies: Platysternon megacephalum peguense

Name

• Platysternon megacephalum peguense Gray 1870:70
  • Holotype:
  • Type locality: Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Vietnam

Synonymy

• Platysternon megacephalum peguense Gray 1870:70
  • Platysternon megacephalum peguense Wermuth 1960
  • Platysternon megacephalum vogeli Wermuth 1969 (fide Ernst & Barbour)
  • Platysternon megacephalum peguense Chan-Ard et al. 1999:228
  • Platysternon megacephalum peguense TTWG 2010
  • Platysternon megacephalum peguense TTWG 2014
  • Platysternon megacephalum peguense TTWG 2017

References

• Gray, J.E. 1870. Supplement to the Catalogue of Shield Reptiles in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Testudinata (Tortoises). Taylor and Francis, London. 120 p., 40 figs.
• Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
• Wermuth, H. 1969. Eine neue Grosskopfschildkrote, Platysternon megacephalum vogeli, n. ssp. D. Aquar.-Terr. Zeitsch. (DATZ) 22 (12): 372-37

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (van Dijk, P.P., Iverson, J.B., Rhodin, A.G.J., Shaffer, H.B. & Bour, R.) 2014. Turtles of the world, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. Chelonian Research Monographs 5(7):000.329–479 Reference page. 

• Turtle Taxonomy Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.). 2017. Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.). Chelonian Research Monographs 7: 1–292. ISBN 978-1-5323-5026-9. DOI: 10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.