First record of the Vulnerable Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle, Notochelys platynota (Gray 1834) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae), in Belitung, Indonesia

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The Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle, Notochelys platynota (Gray 1834), is a freshwater turtle endemic across Southeast Asia and is categorized as Vulnerable according to the IUCN Red list. We report the first record of this species from Belitung, a remote Island in Indonesia, based on photographs. The new record is approximately 150 km to the east of the nearest locality on Bangka Island, Indonesia. This species was obtained in upstream, slow-flowing waters in forested hills 75 m above sea level.

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Authors/Creators:	Hasan, V South, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6339-4225
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords:	Biogeography, distribution range, ecology, freshwater turtle
Dates:	Accepted: 29 April 2023 Published (online): 9 May 2023 Published: 9 May 2023
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	12 May 2023 09:25
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2023 23:21
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Pensoft Publishers
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.15560/19.3.301

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First record of the Vulnerable Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle, Notochelys platynota (Gray 1834) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae), in Belitung, Indonesia

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