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Notochelys platynota (GRAY, 1834)

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Higher TaxaGeoemydidae (Geoemydinae), Testudinoidea, Testudines (turtles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle
G: Plattrücken-Schildkröte 
SynonymEmys platynotha GRAY 1834: 54, plate 1
Notochelys platynota — GRAY 1863
Notochelys platynota — GRAY 1864: 108
Notochelys platynota — GRAY 1873: 165
Cyclemys giebelii HUBRECHT 1881
Cyclemys platynota — BOULENGER 1889
Cistudo bankanensis BLEEKER (nomen nudum) 1889
Notochelys platynota — DE ROOIJ 1915: 304
Notochelys platynota — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 451
Notochelys platynota — COX et al. 1998: 128
Notochelys platynota — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Notochelys platynota — TTWG 2021 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, West Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bangka, Belitung), Vietnam, Singapore

Type locality: "in India Orientali," later restricted to "Sumatra; Singapore" by Gray (1863:177).  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1947.3.4.6. 
Diagnosis 
CommentShown on page 67 but erroneously labelled as Cyclemys dentata (fide FRITZ 2002, Salamandra 38: 64).

Type species: Emys platynotha GRAY 1834 is the type species of the genus Notochelys GRAY 1863: 177.

Habitat: freshwater (Rivers, swamps)

Karyotype: 2n = 52 (Carr and Bickham 1986) 
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