The Malayan flat-shelled turtle (''Notochelys platynota'') is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

turtle Turtles are reptiles of the order (biology), order Testudines, characterized by a special turtle shell, shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Crypt ...

found in

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Distribution

It is found in the mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore) and in parts of the

Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based ...

(Sumatra, Java, Borneo). Type locality: "in India Orientali", later restricted to "Sumatra; Singapore" by Gray (1863:177).

Habitat

This species can be found in lowland forests and wetlands, including streams and small creeks.

References

* Buskirk, James 1997 The Malayan Flat-Shelled Turtle ''Notochelys platynota'' Vivarium 9 (1): 6–9;15 * Gray, J.E. 1834 Characters of several new species of freshwater tortoises (''Emys'') from India and China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 2: 53-55 * Gray, J.E. 1863 Observations on the box tortoises, with the descriptions of three new Asiatic species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 173-179 * Gray, J.E. 1864 Observations on the box tortoises, with the description of three new Asiatic species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 105-111 * Gray, J.E. 1873 On the original form, development, and cohesion of the bones of the sternum of chelonians; with notes on the skeleton of ''Sphargis''. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 11: 161-172 * Liat, Lim Boo & Das, Indraneil 1999 The turtles of Borneo and peninsular Malaysia. Kota Kinabalu, natural History Publications, 151 pp. Notochelys Turtles of Asia Reptiles of Borneo Reptiles of Brunei Reptiles of Indonesia Reptiles of Malaysia Reptiles of Thailand Reptiles of Vietnam Reptiles described in 1834 Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{turtle-stub

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