Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Bengal Eyed Terrapin, Burmese Eyed Turtle, Peacock Turtle, Swamp Turtle
Common Names in French:
Emyde à Ocelles De Birmanie, Tortue De Birmanie
Common Names in German:
Hinterindische Pfauenaugen-Sumpfschil.
Common Names in Russian:
Черепаха бирманская глазастая, бирманская болотная
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Order:
Testudines
()
- Family:
Geoemydidae or Bataguridae
()
- Subfamily:
Batagurinae
()
- Genus:
Morenia
()
- Gray, 1870b
- Specific name:
ocellata
- Dumril & Bibron
- Scientific name: - Morenia ocellata Dumril & Bibron
- Specific name:
ocellata
- Dumril & Bibron
- Genus:
Morenia
(
- Subfamily:
Batagurinae
(
- Family:
Geoemydidae or Bataguridae
(
- Order:
Testudines
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- ? Batagur ocellata Gray 1857: 343
- Batagur ocellata Gray 1857: 343 ?
- Emys berdmorei Blyth 1859
- Emys ocellata Dumril & Bibron 1835: 329
- Morenia ocellata /i> (Duméril and Bibron, 1835)
- Morenia ocellata Boulenger 1889
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Morenia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. caudata · M. corallina · M. corallocarpa · M. fragrans · M. integrifolia · M. lindeniana · M. linearis · M. macrocarpa · M. ocellata (Bengal Eyed Terrapin) · M. pauciflora · M. petersi (Indian Eyed Turtle) · M. poeppigiana · M. robusta
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Archiv fr Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 222, p. 227.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Bourret (1941) Les tortues de l'Indochine.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 117.
- Dumril & Bibron. (1835) Erptologie Gnrale, Rept., Vol. 2.
- Ernst & Barbour (1989) Turtles of the World.
- Gray (1857) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 19: 342-344
- 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. 1988. 1988 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, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
- Kuchling (1995) Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1 (3): 223-226
- Smith (1931) Fauna British India.
Notes
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Contributors
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Morenia ocellata. 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 October 3, 2006.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2547145
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-21505
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 202099
- IUCN ID: 13873
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: C01E
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6527
