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.]
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Bataguridae
[16 spp.] |
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Batagur
baska (Gray 1831)
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lit
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Cuora
amboinensis (Daudin 1802)
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lit
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Cyclemys
oldhamii Gray 1863
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Hardella
thurjii (Gray 1831) |
lit
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Heosemys
depressa (Anderson 1875)
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lit
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Heosemys
grandis (Gray 1860)
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lit
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Heosemys
spinosa (Gray 1831)
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Kachuga
kachuga (Gray 1831)
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lit
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Kachuga
trivittata (Duméril and Bibron 1835)
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lit
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Malayemys
subtrijuga (Schlegel and Müller 1844) |
lit
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Mauremys
pritchardi McCord 1997
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Melanochelys
trijuga (Schweigger 1812)
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lit
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Morenia
ocellata (Duméril and Bibron 1835)
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lit
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Notochelys
platynota (Gray 1834) |
lit
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Pyxidea
mouhotii (Gray 1862)
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lit
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Siebenrockiella
crassicollis (Gray 1831) |
lit
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Cheloniidae
[4 spp.] |
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Caretta
caretta (Linnaeus 1758)
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lit
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Chelonia
mydas (Linnaeus 1758)
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lit
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Eretmochelys
imbricata (Linnaeus 1766) |
MPV, lit
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Lepidochelys
olivacea (Eschscholtz 1829) |
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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.] |
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Dermochelys
coriacea Vandelli 1761 |
lit
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Emydidae
[1 sp.] |
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Trachemys
scripta (Schoepff 1792) |
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Testudinidae
[5 spp.] |
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Geochelone
elegans (Schoepff 1795)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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).
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