TURTLES
The initial checklist was produced from John Iverson's (1993) "Revised
Checklist and Maps of the Turtles of the World". The present list
depends primarily on P. P. van Dijk's reports (1993, 1994), which include
his personal observations in central Myanmar and his examination of museum
voucher specimens. Taxonomy follows van Dijk (2000).
Column Status indicates whether this species has been verified by the Project (V) or has been reported in the literature (lit). Due to consideration of CITES, many turtle species have been vouchered by photographs, not specimens (MPV).
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Testudines [36 spp.] |
Status
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| Bataguridae [16 spp.] | |||||
| Batagur
baska (Gray 1831) |
lit
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| Cuora
amboinensis (Daudin 1802) |
lit
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| Cyclemys
oldhamii Gray 1863 |
V, lit 1
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| Hardella thurjii (Gray 1831) |
lit
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| Heosemys
depressa (Anderson 1875) |
lit
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| Heosemys
grandis (Gray 1860) |
lit
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| Heosemys
spinosa (Gray 1831) |
lit
2
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| Kachuga
kachuga (Gray 1831) |
lit
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| Kachuga
trivittata (Duméril and Bibron 1835) |
lit
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| Malayemys subtrijuga (Schlegel and Müller 1844) |
lit
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| Mauremys
pritchardi McCord 1997 |
lit
3
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| Melanochelys
trijuga (Schweigger 1812) |
lit
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| Morenia
ocellata (Duméril and Bibron 1835) |
lit
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| Notochelys platynota (Gray 1834) |
lit
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| Pyxidea
mouhotii (Gray 1862) |
lit
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| Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray 1831) |
lit
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| Cheloniidae [4 spp.] | |||||
| Caretta
caretta (Linnaeus 1758) |
lit
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| Chelonia
mydas (Linnaeus 1758) |
lit
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| Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus 1766) |
MPV, lit
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| Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz 1829) |
MPV
4, lit
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Chelydridae: Platysterninae [1 sp.] |
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| Platysternon megacephalum Gray 1831 |
MPV, lit
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| Dermochelyidae [1 sp.] | |||||
| Dermochelys coriacea Vandelli 1761 |
lit
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| Emydidae [1 sp.] | |||||
| Trachemys scripta (Schoepff 1792) |
MPV
5
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| Testudinidae [5 spp.] | |||||
| Geochelone
elegans (Schoepff 1795) |
lit 6
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| Geochelone platynota (Blyth 1863) |
MPV, lit
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| Indotestudo elongata (Blyth 1853) |
MPV, lit
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| Manouria
emys (Schlegel and Müller 1844) |
V, lit
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| Manouria impressa (Günther 1882) |
V, lit
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Trionychidae [8 spp.] |
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| Amyda
cartilaginea (Boddaert 1770) |
lit
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| Chitra indica (Gray 1831) |
lit
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| Chitra vandijki McCord and Pritchard 2002 |
lit
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| Dogania subplana (Geoffroy 1809) |
lit
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| Lissemys
punctata (Lacépède 1788) |
lit
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| Lissemys scutata (Peters 1868) |
lit
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| Nilssonia formosa (Gray 1869) |
lit
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| Pelochelys bibroni (Owen 1853) |
lit
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1. Cyclemys oldhamii has been restricted to NE India, Burma, Thailand, Malay peninsula to Borneo, Sumatra and Java while C. dentata is from Thailand and Malay peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Palawan and Sulu regions of the Philippines (Fritz, Gaulke and Lehr 1997; Fritz, Gaulke, and Schöder 1996).
2. Early authors report from Bago and Tenasserim; latter locality vouchered by a BMNH specimen (fide P.P. van Dijk, ltr. Jan. 1999).
3. A newly described species (McCord 1997) based on specimens of unconfirmed provenance. This taxon is potentially invalid because the type series may be a hybrid produced by captive propogation (Aoki, in Fritz and Obst 1999). Wink et al. (2001) suggest that it may be a hybrid of M. mutica and Chinemys reevesii.
4. Myanmar Biodiversity Museum (MBM) has a voucher specimen of a neonate found dead on beach.
5. This North American species was observed at Botataung Pagoda, Yangon. The Myanmar Herpetological Survey Project has not recorded the species in the wild.
6. Reports may represent misidentified Geochelone platynota (van Dijk 1993).