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    Species Accepted

    Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831

    Big-headed Turtle
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Platysternon
    IUCNCritically Endangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Baot penn bras Breton
      Big-headed Turtle English
      Burmese Big-headed Turtle
      Chʼééh digháhii bitsiiʼntsxaaígíí Navajo
      Didžiagalvis vėžlys Lithuanian
      Grootkopschildpad Dutch
      Grosskopfschildkröte German
      Großkopf-Schildkröte German
      Large-headed Terrapin English
      Platysterne à grosse tête French

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

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      Ernst,C.H. and Barbour,R.W. (1989). Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. - London.
      Barley, Anthony J.; Phillip Q. Spinks, Robert C. Thomson, H. Bradley Shaffer. (2010). Fourteen nuclear genes provide phylogenetic resolution for difficult nodes in the turtle tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55 (3): 1189-1194.
      Buskirk, James R. (1989). New locality records for Chinese non-marine chelonians [Chinemys reevesii nigricans, Cistoclemmys flavomarginata, Cuora galbinifrons hainanensis pani, Mauremys mutica, Clemmys Oscadia sinensis, Sacalia bealei quadriocellata, Platysternon megacephalum, Testudo horsfieldii, Manouria impressa, trionyx]. Chinese Herpetological Research 2 (2): 65-68.
      Wei, Y., Gong, S., Shi, H., & Li, W. (2016). Quantitative analysis of courtship and mating behaviours in the big-headed turtle, Platysternon megacephalum. The Herpetological Journal 26 (2): 85-91.
      TTWG [Peter Paul van Dijk, John B. Iverson, Anders G.J. Rhodin, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Roger Bour]. (2014). Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with Maps, and Conservation Status. 000.v7. Chelonian Research Monographs (ISSN 1088-7105) No. 5, Doi:10.3854/Crm.5.000.Checklist.V7.2014.
      Wermuth, H. (1969). Eine neue Grosskopfschildkrote, Platysternon megacephalum vogeli, n. ssp. Datz 22 (12): 372-374.
      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.
      Lee, J. C.I.; Tsai, L.C.; Liao, S.P.; Linacre, A. & Hsieh, H.M. (2009). Species identification using the cytochrome b gene of commercial turtle shells. Forensic Science International: Genetics 3: 67–73.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1893). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e Regioni Vicine LII. Concluding report on the reptiles and batrachians obtained in Burma by Signor L. Fea, dealing with the collection made in Pegu and the Karin Hills in 1887-88. Annali Mus. Civ. Genova (2) 13: 304-347.
      Pham, V. A., Tran, D. A., Le Duc, M., Nguyen, D. K., Thai, C. T., Nguyen, V. H., ... & Nguyen, T. H. V. (2024). Threatened Species of Amphibians and Reptiles from Vu Quang National Park and Their Conservation Values. VNU Journal of Science: Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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