EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Cyclemys dentata
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Cyclemys (Asian Leaf Turtles)
species..............Cyclemys dentata (Asian Leaf Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1831b : 20, Errata
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) BMNH 1946.1.22.62; BMNH 1946.1.22.63
- Type Locality
- "Bengal [India] ... Java [Indonesia]"; restricted to "Java" by Smith (1931:80)
- Original name
- Emys dentata
- Common Name
- Asian Leaf Turtle
- Distribution
- Eastern India (and possibly eastern Nepal) to Vietnam and southern China (PRC), the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra and Java, Indonesia and east to the Philippines
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931), Bourret (1941), Taylor (1970), Tikader and Sharma (1985; in India), and Das (1991; in India). Includes Cyclemys tiannanensis Kou (1989:193) according to Das (1991) and Iverson (unpublished).
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