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). Images are available for some species () through a dynamic link to our Image database. More will be coming soon.

	Testudines [36 spp.]				Status
			Bataguridae [16 spp.]
				Batagur baska (Gray 1831)	lit
				Cuora amboinensis (Daudin 1802)	lit
				Cyclemys oldhamii Gray 1863	V, lit 1
				Hardella thurjii (Gray 1831)	lit
				Heosemys depressa (Anderson 1875)	lit
				Heosemys grandis (Gray 1860)	lit
				Heosemys spinosa (Gray 1831)	lit 2
				Kachuga kachuga (Gray 1831)	lit
				Kachuga trivittata (Duméril and Bibron 1835)	lit
				Malayemys subtrijuga (Schlegel and Müller 1844)	lit
				Mauremys pritchardi McCord 1997	lit 3
				Melanochelys trijuga (Schweigger 1812)	lit
				Morenia ocellata (Duméril and Bibron 1835)	lit
				Notochelys platynota (Gray 1834)	lit
				Pyxidea mouhotii (Gray 1862)	lit
				Siebenrockiella crassicollis (Gray 1831)	lit
			Cheloniidae [4 spp.]
				Caretta caretta (Linnaeus 1758)	lit
				Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus 1758)	lit
				Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus 1766)	MPV, lit
				Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz 1829)	MPV 4, lit
			Chelydridae: Platysterninae [1 sp.]
				Platysternon megacephalum Gray 1831	MPV, lit
			Dermochelyidae [1 sp.]
				Dermochelys coriacea Vandelli 1761	lit
			Emydidae [1 sp.]
				Trachemys scripta (Schoepff 1792)	MPV 5
			Testudinidae [5 spp.]
				Geochelone elegans (Schoepff 1795)	lit 6
				Geochelone platynota (Blyth 1863)	MPV, lit
				Indotestudo elongata (Blyth 1853)	MPV, lit
				Manouria emys (Schlegel and Müller 1844)	V, lit
				Manouria impressa (Günther 1882)	V, lit
			Trionychidae [8 spp.]
				Amyda cartilaginea (Boddaert 1770)	lit
				Chitra indica (Gray 1831)	lit
				Chitra vandijki McCord and Pritchard 2002	lit
				Dogania subplana (Geoffroy 1809)	lit
				Lissemys punctata (Lacépède 1788)	lit
				Lissemys scutata (Peters 1868)	lit
				Nilssonia formosa (Gray 1869)	lit
				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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