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Higher TaxaGeoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Asian Leaf Turtle
G: Dornrandschildkröte 
SynonymEmys dhor GRAY 1831
Emys dentata GRAY 1831 (partim)
Emys hasselti BOIE 1831 (nomen nudum)
Cyclemys orbiculata BELL 1834
Cistudo diardii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835: 227
Cistudo Diardii — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 224
Cyclemys dentata GRAY 1856: 264
Cistudo dentata — GRAY 1857: 344
Cyclemys ovata GRAY 1863
Cyclemys bellii GRAY 1863
Cyclemys orbiculata — GRAY 1864: 109
Cyclemys ovata — GRAY 1864: 110
Cyclemys orbiculata — SOWERBY 1872
Cyclemys dhor — GRAY 1873: 167
Cyclemys dhor BOULENGER 1889
Cyclemys dhor — DE ROOIJ 1915: 301
Cyclemys dentata — XIANGKUI 1994
Cyclemys dentata — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 445
Cyclemys dentata — COX et al. 1998: 128
Cyclemys entate [sic] — ZHOU & LI 2007
Cyclemys dentata — NUR-AMALINA et al. 2017
Cyclemys dentata — TTWG 2021 
DistributionN India, Bangladesh, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bali, Natuna islands), Philippines (Palawan: Calamian Islands etc.), China

Type locality: "Bengal. . .Java".  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.22.62 and 1946.1.22.63. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Adult: Shell ovoid to heart-shaped. Femoral mid-seam shorter than anal mid-seam; anal notch narrow and acute- angled. Colouration and pattern of shell (Fig. 11), head and neck resemble C. atripons but carapace on average darker brown and bridge never black; head and neck stripes narrower and red- dish coloured; throat distinctly striped or mottled with dark pattern, never uniform light. Hatchling (Fig. 9): Ventral shell brownish-yellow with mottled dark pattern; light head and neck stripes narrow, throat striped. For maximum size and comparison with diagnostic characters of other species, see Table 3 in Fritz et al. 2008: 10. 
CommentDistribution: possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012 and references therein).

Type species: Cyclemys orbiculata BELL 1834 is the type species of the genus Cyclemys BELL 1834: 17.

Habitat: freshwater (Rivers, swamps) 
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