Giant Asian Pond Turtle

Taxobox
name = Giant Asian Pond Turtle
status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
superfamilia = Testudinoidea
familia = Bataguridae
subfamilia = Geoemydinae
genus = "Heosemys"
species = "H. grandis"
binomial = "Heosemys grandis"
binomial_authority = Gray, 1860

The Giant Asian Pond Turtle ("Heosemys grandis") inhabits rivers, streams, marshes, and rice paddies from estuarine lowlands to moderate altitudes (up to about 400 m) throughout Cambodia and Vietnam and in parts of Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.

External links

* [http://www.heosemys.org/grandis.php Heosemys grandis Species Description (on Heosemys.org)]

* [http://www.asianturtlenetwork.org/field_guide/Heosemys_grandis.htm Asian Turtle Conservation Network Page]

* [http://www.asianturtle.org/htm/species_Heosemys_grandis.html Asian Turtle Consortium Page]

* [http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo//animals/reptiles-and-fish/giant-asian-pond-turtle,50,AN.html London Zoo Page]

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable