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Malayan flat shelled turtle

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Genus
  
Notochelys Gray, 1863

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Geoemydidae

Scientific name
  
Notochelys platynota

Higher classification
  
Notochelys

Order
  
Turtle

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Similar
  
Turtle, Mekong snail‑eating turtle, Siebenrockiella, Heosemys, Sulawesi forest turtle

The Malayan flat-shelled turtle (Notochelys platynota) is a species of turtle found in Southeast Asia.

Distribution

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Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, West Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Bangka), Vietnam, Singapore. Type locality: "in India Orientali", later restricted to "Sumatra; Singapore" by Gray (1863:177).

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References

Malayan flat-shelled turtle Wikipedia