First Record of the Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa) in Myanmar

Kalyar Platt; Steven G. Platt; Thomas R. Rainwater

doi:10.2744/CCB-1082.1

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Kalyar Platt,¹ Steven G. Platt,² Thomas R. Rainwater³

¹1 Turtle Survival Alliance, Building C-1, Aye Yeik Mon 1st Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon, Myanmar
²2 Wildlife Conservation Society-Myanmar Program, Building C-1, Aye Yeik Mon 1st Street, Hlaing Towns
³3 US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services Field Office, 176 Croghan Spur Road, Suite 200,

Abstract

We report the first specimen-based records of Heosemys spinosa (Gray 1830) from Myanmar, validating earlier assumptions of its occurrence within the country. Our records consist of 5 living H. spinosa examined at Kan Baw Gyi Village in Tanintharyi Region of southern Myanmar. These specimens originated from seasonally inundated lowland riparian wetlands near the village where we examined them. Potential threats to H. spinosa in southern Myanmar include subsistence and commercial harvesting and, most importantly, the widespread conversion of natural forests to oil palm plantations.

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Kalyar Platt, Steven G. Platt, and Thomas R. Rainwater "First Record of the Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa) in Myanmar," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 13(2), 257-260, (1 December 2014). https://doi.org/10.2744/CCB-1082.1

Received: 23 September 2013; Accepted: 1 December 2013; Published: 1 December 2014

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