Geochelone platynota

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Geochelone elegans platynota Obst 1986
2. Geochelone platynota — Le Et Al. 2006
3. Geochelone platynota — Mccord & Joseph-Ouni 2004
4. Geochelone platynota — Pritchard 1967
5. Testudo platinota BOURRET 1941 /i> (Error Typographicus)
6. Testudo platynota Blyth 1863
7. Testudo platynota — Smith 1931: 140

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Geochelone

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 59 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. atlas · G. becki · G. bolivari · G. carbonaria (South American Red-Footed Tortoise) · G. chathamensis · G. chilensis (Southern Wood Tortoise) · G. chilensis chilensis (Southern Wood Tortoise) · G. chilensis donosobarrosi · G. chilensis petersi · G. chiliensis · G. crassiscutata · G. darwini · G. denticulata (South American Yellow-Footed Tortoise) · G. elegans (Indian Starred Tortoise) · G. elephantophus (Galapagos Giant Tortoise) · G. elephantopus · G. elephantopus chathamensis · G. emys · G. ephippium · G. forstenii · G. gigantea (Aldabra Giant Tortoise) · G. grandidieri · G. guentheri · G. gymnesica · G. hesperotestudo · G. hesterna · G. hoodensis · G. microphyes · G. nigra (Abingdon Island Tortoise) · G. nigra abingdoni · G. nigra abingdonii · G. nigra becki (Volcan Wolf Tortoise) · G. nigra chathamensis (Chatham Island Tortoise) · G. nigra darwini (James Island Tortoise) · G. nigra duncanensis · G. nigra ephippium (Duncan Island Tortoise) · G. nigra galapagoensis (Charles Island Tortoise) · G. nigra guntheri (Sierra Negra Tortoise) · G. nigra hoodensis (Hood Island Tortoise) · G. nigra microphyes (Volcan Darwin Tortoise) · G. nigra nigra · G. nigra nigrita · G. nigra or · G. nigra porteri (Indefatigable Island Tortoise) · G. nigra vandenburghi (Volcan Alcedo Tortoise) · G. nigra vicina (Iguana Cove Tortoise) · G. nigrita · G. oelrichi · G. orthopygia · G. pardalis (Leopard Tortoise) · G. pardalis babcocki · G. pardalis pardalis · G. platynota (Burmese Starred Tortoise) · G. radiata (Radiated Tortoise) · G. stromeri · G. sulcata (African Spurred Tortoise) · G. tabulata · G. yniphora (Madagascar Angulated Tortoise) · G. denticulata

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Further Reading

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Blyth (1863) Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 32 (1): 73-90.
• Boulenger (1889) Cat. Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, Crocodiles.
• Bourret (1941) Les tortues de l'Indochine.
• Ernst & Barbour (1989) Turtles of the World.
• Groombridge, B. 1982. The IUCN Amphibia-Reptilia Red Data Book, Part 1: Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynocehapalia. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.
• Iverson (1986) Checklist Distribution Maps Turtles World.
• Iverson, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
• Le et al. (2006) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 450 (2): 517-531
• McCord et al. (2004) Reptilia (GB) (33): 35-38
• Obst (1986) St. Martins, New York. 231 pp.
• Platt et al. (2001) Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 4(1):172-177
• Smith (1931) Fauna British India.

Notes

Contributors

• Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Geochelone platynota. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 7, 2006.
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2539968
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-13194
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551781
• IUCN ID: 9013
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5401

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