EMYSystem Text Only Family Page: Platysternidae
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Platysternidae (Big-headed Turtles)
subfamily.......no_subfamily
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- Original Description
- Gray 1869a : 175
- Original name
- None
- Common Name
- 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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