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Batagur trivittata (Burmese Roofed Turtle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata) is one of six species of turtle in the genus Batagur of the Geoemydidae family.It is endemic to Myanmar, but was believed to be extinct until rediscovered in 2002. It remains very rare in the wild, but a conservation project has been successful and several hundred are now kept in the Yadanabon Zoological Gardens in Mandalay and a turtle conservation center in Lawkananda Park, Bagan. An individual was seen in 2007 in Qingping Market in Guangzhou, China.
View Wikipedia Record: Batagur trivittata

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Batagur trivittata

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  25

Ecoregions

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Htamanthi Myanmar

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Turtles and Tortoises Demographic Traits Database for CITES Listed Species ver. 01, Species360 (2018)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0