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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Asian Brown Tortoise, Asian Giant Tortoise, Asian Tortoise, Black Giant Tortoise, Brown Tortoise, Burmese Brown Tortoise, Burmese Mountain Tortoise, Six-Legged Tortoise
Common Names in French:
Tortue Brune
Common Names in German:
Braune Hinterindische Landschildkrote
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Anapsida
()
- Order:
Testudines
()
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
()
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
()
- Family:
Testudinidae
()
- Genus:
Manouria
()
- Gray, 1852
- Specific name:
emys
- Schlegel & Müller
- Scientific name: - Manouria emys Schlegel & Müller
- Specific name:
emys
- Schlegel & Müller
- Genus:
Manouria
(
- Family:
Testudinidae
(
- Superfamily:
Testudinoidea
(
- Suborder:
Cryptodira
(
- Order:
Testudines
(
- Subclass:
Anapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Geochelone /i> (Manouria) Emys — Alderton 1988
- Geochelone emys Alderton 1988
- Geochelone emys Pritchard 1967
- Manouria emys /i> (Schlegel & S. Müller, 1844)
- Manouria emys /i> (Schlegel and Müller, 1844)
- Manouria emys — Cox Et Al. 1998: 133
- Manouria emys — Manthey & Grossmann 1997: 457
- Manouria emys — Obst 1985
- Manouria fusca Gray 1854
- Manouria fusca — Gray 1855: 68
- Manouria fusca Gray 1861: 215
- Teleopus luxatus Le Conte 1854
- Testudo emydoides DUMÉRIL BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1851 /i> (Nom. Subst.)
- Testudo emys — Boulenger 1889
- Testudo emys SCHLEGEL & MÜLLER /i> (In Temminck) 1844
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Manouria
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. emys (Burmese Mountain Tortoise) · M. emys emys (Burmese Mountain Tortoise) · M. emys phayrei (Burmese Brown Tortoise) · M. fusca · M. impressa (Impressed Tortoise) · M. impressa
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Further Reading
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- Anderson (1871) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 8: 324-330
- Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 123.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Blyth (1854) J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655
- Bour (1998) Manouria 1 (1): 1-9 [2002?]
- Chan et al. (1999) Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp.
- Choudhury (1996) Cheetal 35 (3-4):
- Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1876. ENG url p. 4.
- 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, J. B. 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Privately Printed. Richmond, Indiana. ISBN: 0-9617431-0-5.
- OEPP (Office of Environment Policy and Planning). 1997. Proceedings of the Conference on the Status of Biological Resources in Thailand, 29-30 May 1996. Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Bangkok, [in Thai].
- Reptilia and Batrachia / by George A. Boulenger. London: Taylor and Francis, 1890. ENG url p. 22.
Notes
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Contributors
- Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Manouria emys. 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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research: Herp Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2542244
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-20507
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 551952
- IUCN ID: 12774
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7043
