Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968154 |
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Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831 View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.
Big-headed Turtle
Singapore records.
Platysternum megacephalum — Hanitsch, 1910b: 7 (Bukit Timah).
Platysternon megacephalum View in CoL — Boulenger, 1912: 26 (Bukit Timah).—T.H. Ng & K.K.P. Lim, 2010: 125.
Remarks. Hanitsch (1910) described receiving a live specimen of P. megacephalum caught near Bukit Timah, which Boulenger (1912) believed was likely introduced from China. This is most likely ZRC.2.209 at LKCNHM, which was collected on 5 October 1909. Platysternon megacephalum is native to China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam (TTWG 2021).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality) : ZRC.2.209 (05-Oct-1909) .
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Family Podocnemididae Cope, 1868 (1 species)
Genus Podocnemis Wagler, 1830 (1 species)
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Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831
Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023 |
Platysternon megacephalum
Boulenger, G. A. 1912: 26 |
Platysternum megacephalum
Hanitsch, R. 1910: 7 |