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    Species Accepted

    Geochelone platynota (Blyth, 1863)

    Burmese Star Tortoise
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Geochelone
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Birma-Sternschildkröte German
      Burmese Star Tortoise English
      Burmese Starred Tortoise English
      Burmesische Sternschildkröte German
      Flatback Tortoise English
      Tartaruga-estrela-de-Burma Portuguese
      Tortue étoilée de Birmanie French
      Tortuga Estrellada de Burma Spanish
      burmai csillagteknős Hungarian
      želva barmská Czech

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      28 results
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      Rauhaus, Anna; Christian Niggemann, Joana Nicolaudius & Thomas Ziegler. (2021). Haltung und Nachzucht der vom Aussterben bedrohten Burmesischen Sternschildkröte Geochelone platynota im Kölner Zoo, Deutschland. Sauria 43 (2): 13-26.
      Platt, S G; Lwin, T; Platt, K; Elsey, R M & Rainwater, T R; (2019). Geochelone platynota (Burmese Star Tortoise) Maximum body size and giantism. Herpetological Review 50 (1): 121-123.
      Obst, F. J. (1986). Turtles, tortoises and terrapins. St. Martins, New York. 231 Pp.
      Platt, Steven G.; Swann Htet Naing Aung, Me Me Soe, Tint Lwin, Kalyar Platt, Andrew D. Walde & Thomas R. Rainwater. (2021). Predation on Translocated Burmese Star Tortoise (Geochelone platynota) by Asiatic Jackals (Canis aureus) and Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) at a Wildlife Sanctuary in Myanmar. Chelonian Conservation and Biology Jun 2021 Vol. 20, No. 1: 133-138.
      Joyce, Walter G. and Christopher J. Bell. (2004). A review of the comparative morphology of extant testudinoid turtles (Reptilia: Testudines). Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 53-109.
      TTWG; Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R., Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. (2021). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.). In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Stanford, C.B., Goode, E.V., Buhlmann, K.A., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 8:1–472. Doi:10.3854/Crm.8.Checklist.Atlas.V9.2021.
      McCord, W. P., & Joseph-Ouni, M. (2004). Chelonian Illustrations #13: Asian and Indonesian Tortoises. Reptilia (GB) (33): 35-38.
      Platt, S. G., Platt, K., Khaing, L. L., Yu, T. T., Aung, S. H., New, S. S., Soe, M. M., Myo, K. M., Lwin, T., Ko, W. K., Aung, S. H. N., & Rainwater, T. R. (2017). Back from the brink: Ex-situ conservation and recovery of the critically endangered Burmese Star Tortoise (Geochelone platynota) in Myanmar. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 570-575.
      Williams, N. (2010). The last tortoise. Current Biology 20 (12): R493-R495.

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