Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Gray, J. E. Characters of a new genus of freshwater tortoise from China.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Testudines
- family
- Platysternidae
- genus
- Platysternon
- species
- Platysternon megacephalum
Name
- Synonyms
- Platysternon megacephalum tristernalis Schleich & Gruber, 1984
- Platysternon peguense Gray, 1870
- Homonyms
- Platysternon megacephalum Gray, 1831
- Platysternon megacephalum Danilov & Parham, 2008
- Common names
- Big-headed Turtle in English
- Big-headed Turtle in English
- Burmese Big-headed Turtle in language.
- Grosskopfschildkröte in German
- Vietnamese Big-headed Turtle in language.
- big-headed turtle in language.
- អណើ្តកក្បាលធំ in Central Khmer
- 平胸龟 in Chinese
- Big-headed Turtle in English
Bibliographic References
- Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363.
- Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479.