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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Geoemyda (Leaf Turtles)
species
species list
G. depressa (Arakan Forest Turtle)
G. japonica (Ryuku Leaf Turtle)
G. leytensis (Philippine Pond Turtle)
G. silvatica (Cochin Forest Cane Turtle)
G. spengleri (Black-breasted Leaf Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1834b : 100
- Common Name
- Leaf Turtles
- Distribution
- southwestern India and Indochina to China and the Ryukyu Islands
- Comments
- Tribe Geoemydini. Lorenz (1984) and Moll et al. (1987) discussed the composition of this genus and the genus Heosemys.
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