Burmese Star Tortoise
Geochelone platynota (Blyth, 1863)
Also calledBirma-Sternschildkröte (deu) · Burmesische Sternschildkröte (deu) · Tartaruga-estrela-de-Burma (por) · Tortue étoilée de Birmanie (fra) · Tortuga Estrellada de Burma (spa) · burmai csillagteknős (hun) · želva barmská (ces) · Бирманская черепаха (rus) · سلحفاة النجمة البورمية (ara) · ビルマホシガメ (jpn) · 緬甸星龜 (zho)
First described in: Blyth, & Edward. Report of the curator, zoological department.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Syntypes (3, supposedly in the BMNH and ZSI according to Smith 1931: 140): ZSI 787, 788, and 789 (Das et al. 1998: 128; Kundu et al. 2018: 15, where all types are photographed). Boulenger (1889: 162) listed three additional specimens in the BMNH but they were not listed as types.
A review of Chelonian type specimens (order Testudines)
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Every page naming Geochelone platynota in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2441526.