Malayan flat-shelled turtle | |
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In Indonesia | |
1833-1834 illustration | |
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] | |
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The Malayan flat-shelled turtle (Notochelys platynota) is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia. [1] [4]
It is found in the mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, [1] [4] Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore [4] ) and in parts of the Malay Archipelago (Sumatra, Java, Borneo). [1] [4]
Type locality: "in India Orientali", later restricted to "Sumatra; Singapore" by Gray (1863:177). [4]
This species can be found in lowland forests and wetlands, including streams and small creeks. [1]
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