EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Heosemys grandis
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Geoemydidae ()
subfamily.......no_subfamily
genus...............Heosemys (Forest Turtles)
species..............Heosemys grandis (Giant Asian Pond Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Gray 1860a : 218
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) BMNH 1947.3.4.7; BMNH 1947.3.4.55, although the BMNH catalog records a third specimen (BMNH 1947.3.4.56) from "Pachebone" which may also be syntypical.
- Type Locality
- "Camboja" [= Kampuchea = Cambodia]
- Original name
- Geoemyda grandis
- Common Name
- Giant Asian Pond Turtle
- Distribution
- Burma to Vietnam and south through Malaya (Malaysia)
- Comments
- Reviewed by Smith (1931; as Geoemyda grandis), Bourret (1941; as Geoemyda grandis), and Taylor (1970).
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