EMYSystem Family Page: Platysternidae

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	Original Description	Gray 1869a : 175
	Synonyms	(original name)
	Common names	Big-headed Turtles
	Distribution	As for the single species
	Comments	See Comment and phylogeny under Chelydridae. Considered the sister taxon of the Emydidae plus the Testudinidae by Haiduk and Bickham (1982) and Bickham and Carr (1983); but Gaffney (1975) and Gaffney and Meylan (1988) include these turtles within the Chelydridae.

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